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ACTA

ACTA
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
French: Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon
Spanish: Acuerdo Comercial Anti-Falsificación
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Type Plurilateral agreement
Drafted
  • 15 November 2010 (final revision)
  • 15 April 2011 (formal publication)
Signed 1 October 2011
Location Tokyo, Japan
Effective Not in force
Condition Ratification by six states
Negotiators
Signatories
Parties 1 (Japan)
Ratifiers Japan
Depositary Japan Government of Japan
Languages English, French and Spanish
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a multinational treaty for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet, and would create a new governing body outside existing forums, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the United Nations.

The agreement was signed in October 2011 by Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. In 2012, Mexico, the European Union and 22 countries which are member states of the European Union signed as well. One signatory (Japan) has ratified (formally approved) the agreement, which would come into force in countries that ratified it after ratification by six countries.

Industrial groups with interests in copyright, trademarks and other types of intellectual property said that ACTA was a response to "the increase in global trade of counterfeit goods and pirated copyright protected works". Organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America and International Trademark Association are understood to have had a significant influence over the ACTA agenda.


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