Dear Mr President Schulz,

The European Parliament has played an active role in transparency issues relating to ACTA both by demanding disclosure and by disclosing documents [1,2,3] but also, in some instances, by actively withholding public information [4]. This complexity follows as a consequence from that the European Parliament should have been immediately and fully informed at all stages of the ACTA procedure.

The Commission always claimed that the European Parliament had been properly informed [5] to the extent that not even a lawsuit claiming the opposite [6] moderated that stance. Further, it is our understanding that the Commission also claimed that the European Parliament's vote on consent would be immaterial as an effect of the Commission's referral of ACTA to the Court of Justice [7].

Your own commitment to transparency in ACTA [8] has been duly noted and appreciated. We therefore ask you to keep the same high transparency standards also when it comes to the aftermath and closing of the ACTA file.

We understand that the European Parliament has submitted written observations to the Court of Justice and that a question asked by the Court of Justice to the Commission have been sent to the European Parliament [9].

We would kindly ask for your intervention to immediately make all documents available to the public.

With best regards, Linus Nordberg DFRI - Föreningen för digitala fri- och rättigheter https://dfri.se/index.en

[1] https://dfri.se/files/am109_on_ACTA_disclosure.png [2] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA-20... [3] http://lists.act-on-acta.eu/pipermail/hub/2011-December/000072.html [4] https://dfri.se/files/ACTA_documents_release-1.pdf [5] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2010-2033&a... [6] http://curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche.jsf?id=T;301;10;RD;1;P;1;T2010/0301/P [7] http://acta.mpbloggar.se/2012/06/21/eu-kommissionen-tanker-inte-ge-upp-vid-e... [8] https://dfri.se/files/ACTA_schulz_re_8feb.jpg [9] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2013-000018...