Digital Economy Bill Progress

at 26 November 2009

This UK parliament link displays an extremely helpful bill progress chart so that you can see what stage the Digital Economy Bill is at, and what is to happen next.

From this you can see that the next step is the second reading on the 2nd Dec 09 in the House of Lords - this will be a general debate on all aspects of the bill.  Following this debate it will enter the House of Lords committee stage and the chart goes on to detail all the other stages through which the bill must pass if it is to become law.

Note that it should be possible for every photographer in the UK to make a submission to the bill committee as per the extract below from the Digital Economy Bill website link referred to above.

Get involved: guidance on written submissions

Do you have expertise or a special interest in matters contained within a Government Bill? Submit your views to the Commons Public Bill Committee.

I’m sure our UK photographic associations will make submissions to committee but why not strengthen the case they submit by making your own submission?  Send a copy of your submission to your MP as well so that they have the info to defend our interests when the bill reaches the House of Commons.

It would be very helpful to all of us if the photographic associations gave their members a lead on identifying the specific concerns that should be addressed by the committee and our MP’s.

The following links give further information, the full content of the The Digital Economy Bill and there is also a series of fact sheets concerning this bill.