Negotiations over a argumentative anti-piracy consent have been described as a "masquerade" by a key Euro MP.
Kader Arif, the European Parliament's rapporteur is to Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), quiescent over the situation on Friday.
He mentioned he had witnessed "never-before-seen manoeuvres" by officials scheming the treaty.
On Thursday, 22 EU associate states inclusive the UK sealed the agreement.
The agreement still needs to be validated by the European Parliament before it may be enacted. A discuss is scheduled to take place in June.
Mr Arif criticised the efforts to pull deliver with the measures ahead of those discussions receiving place.
"I disparage the entire routine that led to the signature of this agreement: no conference of the polite society, insufficient of clarity given the commencement of negotiations, steady delays of the signature of the content without any reason given, reject of Parliament's recommendations as given in a few resolutions of our assembly."
Mr Arif's preference to mount down follows protests by campaigners in Poland. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets after the consent was signed.
Crowds of often young people hold banners with slogans such as "no to censorship" and "a giveaway internet".
Earlier in the week, hackers pounded a few Polish supervision websites, inclusive that of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The country's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski shielded the plans, revelation local television: "We think that burglary on a large scale of egghead skill is not a great thing."
Campaigners' concerns have been buoyed by Mr Arif's strongly-worded matter expelled on Friday.
"This consent can have leading consequences on citizens' lives," he wrote.
"However, all is done to head off the European Parliament from having its say in this matter. we wish to send a burly vigilance and inform the open viewpoint about this unsatisfactory situation. we will not take segment in this masquerade."
The agreement has caused controversy given an early deliberation paper was published by Wikileaks in 2008 - two years after bargaining initial began. The sum were subsequently fixed in 2010.
If ratified, it proposes to upgrade "the coercion of egghead skill rights" in participating countries.
It suggests surroundings general standards over how
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