A joint press release from international record industry body the IFPI and others called the decision "a missed opportunity for the EU to protect its creative and innovation-based industries in the international market place".

"ACTA is an important tool for promoting European jobs and intellectual property. Unfortunately the treaty got off on the wrong foot in the Parliament, and the real and significant merits of the treaty did not prevail," said Anne Bergman-Tahon, Director of the Federation of European Publishers ...