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Friday, February 04, 2005

Europe's Ministers are planning to push ahead with Draft Directive on Patentability of CII.

Mr. Simon Taylor, IDG News Service, and Mr. Kieren McCarthy, Techworld,

write:

"[...] Europe's ministers are planning to push ahead with controversial patent legislation despite a vote on Wednesday by MEPs to restart the process. The decision will set the two decision-making bodies of the EU at loggerheads.

Nicolas Schmit, deputy foreign minister of Luxembourg, which is currently chairing Council of Ministers meetings, said yesterday that he would ask the body to formally adopt the much-disputed draft directive on patents at a meeting on 17 February.

His statement came after Parliament's legal affairs committee had voted 19-2 in favour of asking the Commission to withdraw the directive and rethink it. [...]"

Um, so, in fact the European Parliament as a body within the context of the EU has not yet taken any formal decision. But if the re-start is formally adopted by the competent decision-makers of the Parliament then we would have something like an institutional crisis between the European Parliament, on the one hand, and the EU Council, on the other hand.

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