Canada-EU Trade Agreement Replicates ACTA’s Notorious Copyright Provisions
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/ceta-replicates-acta
"The shadow of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back in Europe. It is disguised as CETA, the Canada-European Union and Trade Agreement. As reported by EDRI, a rather strange and surprising e-mail was sent this summer from the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union to the Member States and the European Commission. The e-mail explained that the criminal sanctions provisions of the draft CETA are modeled on those in ACTA."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation article goes on to explain about "Policy Laundering" & how this sort of thing is a backdoor to enacting policies that can't/don't make it through normal government channels. In this case 92% of the EU Parliament voted against ACTA, but rather than abandon ACTA, the same policies were secretly buried in a prospective treaty with Canada, -- the idea is that if the EU approves/adopts the treaty, they also approve/adopt the ACTA policies. It's through this "Laundering" process that some provisions of the US DMCA came into being.