On April 30, 2009, EU parliament members and governments agreed to remove the final roadblock to amendments of electronic communications rules. Their informal compromise was rejected, however, by the full Parliament on May 6. The Council of Ministers will decide on June 12 whether to accept the EP position. The major outstanding issue is whether to require network providers to cut off Internet service to users for unlawful downloading without a court order, under the "three-strikes" approach that the French government is striving to adopt in law.
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