Dear Court/Registry,

Following a dialogue with both the EP and the EC[1], we turn to you to better understand the ACTA process.

As the Commission made it clear in June last year that a negative vote on ACTA would not stop the proceedings before the Court[2] we think there is an overwhelming public interest in disclosure of the document that, according to a Commission spokesperson[3], made the Commission withdraw its referral.The case has been referred to as "A-1/12".

Would it be possible for the Court/Registry to answer the following questions?

1) Does the document "the question asked by the Court of Justice to the Commission in case A-1/12" that the Commission refers to in its email[4] exist? 2) Is that document a "procedural document" or a document of another type? 3) Did the Court notify the Parliament this document? If so, when? Was the document notified a person, a Committee Representative, the Legal Service of the EP, the Parliament as an institution or the President? 4) Did the Court notify the Commission this document? If so, when? To whom was it addressed? 5) Has the Commission or the Parliament asked for permission to make this document public? Would such permission be necessary for its publication? 6) Was the Court informed of the Commissions position that a negative vote on ACTA would not stop the proceedings before the Court[2]?

Thank you in advance for your kind help.

With best regards,

Andreas Jonsson DFRI - Föreningen för digitala fri- och rättigheter https://dfri.se/index.en

[1] https://www.dfri.se/wiki/ep-acta-docs/ [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Q8sSndEcsand http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-12-477_en.htm?locale=en [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCBTFh3IhQY [4] https://www.dfri.se/wiki/ep-acta-docs/EC-response-2013-06-19.txt