The European Parliament has opposed the controversial ACTA treaty, after three of its influential committees said the trade agreement should be rejected.
The Legal Affairs Committee (JURI), the Committee for Sector, Research and Energy (ITRE) and the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and House Affairs (LIBE) all voted against implementing the agreement, which brought on mass protests in a number of European countries this year.
In ITRE, the votes were split 31 members for and 12 votes against a draft viewpoint which called on the Parliament to reject ACTA. One member abstained.
In JURI, 10 votes were cast for a pro-ACTA draft viewpoint and twelve against, even though two committee members abstained. The small-margin victory still went to opponents of the treaty.