Pakiet Telekomunikacyjny: ISOC Polska zwraca się do posłów parlamentu europejskiego

Zarząd Stowarzyszenia ISOC-PL powołał grupę roboczą w składzie Tomasz
Kokowski - Józef Halbersztadt, która przeanalizowała zgłoszone poprawki.
Wynikiem tych analiz jest opinia stwierdzająca, że należy utrzymać
przegłosowane w pierwszym czytaniu przez Parlament Europejski dawne
poprawki 138 i 166. Ta i dalsze rekomendacje grupy roboczej są zawarte
w załączonych listach głosowań (voting lists) ISOC-PL.

Internet Society Poland prosi Panie i Panów posłów o uwzględnienie
tej opinii i kierowanie się w tych głosowaniach opinią reprezentacji
profesjonalistów i zaawansowanych użytkowników Internetu, które
różnią się od wytycznych opracowanych w ramach największych grup
politycznych.

Listy głosowań zostały przez ISOC-PL opracowane także w języku
angielskim i jeśli zaistnieje taka potrzeba mogą zostać do Państwa
przesłane pocztą elektroniczną jeśli wyrazicie Państwo takie życzenie.

Z poważaniem,

Za grupę roboczą

Tomasz Kokowski (http://www.put.poznan.pl/~tomasz.kokowski)

Treść apelu:

OPINION ON THE EU TELECOMMUNICATIONS PACKAGE

In an environment where measures such as graduated measures and content filtering are being
considered at a policy level, it is important to also have in place other measures which safeguard the
interests of the Internet user and the citizen.

The EU Council of Ministers will discuss tomorrow two amendments adopted by the EU Parliament in
the framework of the Telecom Package. ISOC-ECC believes that these two amendments are
important to provide those very safeguards.

Gratuated measures / Amendment 138

(European Parliament, Trautmann report Amendment 138 - Framework Directive, Article 8, paragraph
4, point ga)

Text of the Amendment

No restriction may be imposed on the fundamental rights and freedoms of end-users, without a prior
ruling by the judicial authorities, notably in accordance with Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental
Rights of the European Union on freedom of expression and information, save when public security is
threatened where the ruling may be subsequent.

ISOC-ECC Opinion

• ISOC-ECC supports the basic principle expressed by amendment 138, ie. that no one should
endure a penalty without a ruling of a Court of law, except under specific, clearly limited
circumstances,

• ISOC-ECC regrets that such an amendment, which has nothing to do with the intent and
purpose of the Telecommunications package, had to be adopted in order to oppose the will of
certain Member States to pass a legislation at the EU level reducing drastically the level of
protection each citizen of the EU, be they internet users or not, enjoys,

• ISOC-ECC calls on the EU Council of Ministers to maintain this amendment.

Documents to check

www.isoc-ecc.org/docs/ipr2008/GRADUATED_RESPONSES_FIN2_040808 .pdf
http://www.iptegrity.com/pdf/telecoms.package.graduated.response.monica.horten.18august2008.pdf

Net Neutrality / Amendment 166

(European Parliament, Harbour report, Amendment 166 - Universal Services Directive, Article 32(a)
Text of the Amendment
Member States shall ensure that any restrictions to users' rights to access content, services and
applications, if they are necessary, shall be implemented by appropriate measures, in accordance with
the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness. These measures shall not have the
effect of hindering the development of the information society, in compliance with the Directive
2000/31/EC, and shall not conflict with citizens' fundamental rights, including the right to privacy and
the right to due process.

ISOC-ECC Opinion

• ISOC-ECC recognised the Net Neutrality principle which Amendement 166 addresses as one
of the key principles of an open Internet,

• ISOC-ECC notes that the European Union had already recognised (during the WSIS process)
the end-to-end principle as a fundamental technical principle of the Internet and welcomes the
will of the European Parliament to now translate it in a political one through the Net Neutrality principle. The end-to-end and Net Neutrality principles both state that the focus of policy
should be on senders and receivers of messages rather than the channel carrying them,

• ISOC-ECC calls on the EU Council of Ministers to maintain this amendment. In view of the
general trend towards universal access to broad band Internet and the migration of an
increasingly wide range of public and private services to the Internet, it is untenable and
counterproductive to apply any restrictions to users' rights other than through well defined and
codified procedures, fully compatible with applicable law,

• ISOC-ECC calls for further work on the Net Neutrality principle after the adoption of the
Telecom Package in order to refine the Net Neutrality principle and render it effective.

Documents to check

http://www.benton.org/node/15785 (with a comprehensive list of references for the FCC ruling on the
COMCAST case)
http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=9

Contact:

ISOC-ECC Chairman: Christopher WILKINSON – christopher.wilkinson@skynet.be
Tel: 0032 2 732 6258, 0032 84 344832
GSM: 0032 479 396 365