The paperwork on IPRED2 has now moved to the Substantial Criminal Law working committee (DROIPEN): the first step before being debated by representatives of each country in the EU's Council of Ministers. DROIPEN's civil servants will discuss the minutiae of the directive this week, at 10am Monday 4th June. You can find the agenda for that discussion here.

Meanwhile, outside of Brussels, member states are working to prepare their positions on IPRED2. The United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is currently collecting comments from British citizens and companies on the directive. Our coalition has contributed a comprehensive policy paper to the UK IPO that you can read and pass on to the Justice Ministry in your own country. Find a copy here.

If you write to your Justice Ministry, suggest that it hold a similar stakeholders meeting on IPRED2. We'll be happy to pass on the details of any planned meeting to others in your country.

The UK is also holding a stakeholder meeting to discuss developments, which will take place at 11am Tuesday 26 June at the Home Office building in London (For more details, see this page or this Upcoming listing. If you're in the UK, you can contact the UK IPO to attend the meeting at the IPO address above.

Don't forget to also write to your parliamentarians, particularly those you think would be interested in IPRED2 but who are not in power. They are likely to know almost nothing about IPRED2 and will want to learn more to scrutinize their own governments' positions. You will soon become the expert they will turn to for more information!