[Fsfe-france] [Fwd] Finnish EUCD implementation postponed

[Antoine]

Nouvelles encourageantes de Finlande. Notons : "To get the picture how
things changed: today they had for example invited a representative from
the official Finnish consumer protection agency to the parliament."

Solution : contacter l'INC (Institut National de la Consommation,
http://www.inc60.fr/) ?



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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:31:02 +0200
From: Mikko Valimaki <address@hidden>
Subject: [eucd] Finnish EUCD implementation postponed

Hi all,

Some breaking news from Finland: our parliament will return the
national
EUCD law proposal back to the ministry which originally drafted it.

I was today at a parliamentary hearing criticizing the rules on
technical protection etc. Ville Oksanen from EFFI was there on
wednesday.

After the hearing today the chair of the hearing committee announced  that
because of heavy criticism it is not possible to accept the law  before
March elections. Therefore the proposal will be returned back for
  further drafting.

Of course, this is good news for us. While ministry drafting was quite 
chilly and the drafters weren't really interested to hear us, the 
parliament had a different tone. Actually EFFI was the only
organization
- among big corporation like Nokia and large media industry lobby
groups
- who got 2 chances to comment the proposal at the parliament.

To get the picture how things changed: today they had for example  invited
a representative from the official Finnish consumer protection  agency to
the parliament. The agency had made an announcement
criticizing CD-copyprotections back in december after EFFI's public 
campaign. The agency fellow had really nothing to say about the law 
proposal in detail (obviously they don't understand it) but she just  read
their announcement against copyprotected CDs again :)

Today I got the feeling we can really make a difference if we just want to.

Regards,
Mikko
Electronic Frontier Finland