On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:24:17PM +0100, sean@odonnell.nu wrote:
[...]find out exactly what is in and what is out,
[...]One thing i would be very interested to know is exactly how did irish meps vote on this yesterday, but i have'nt a clue where to get that info.
The complete voting results are now at: http://www.europarl.eu.int/direct/documents/fr/vote/Resultats/Mercredi/Appel...
Gathering info from this 154 page doc is not a pleasure. Amendments are referenced by number so you'll need to crossreference it with the amendment texts at: http://www.europarl.eu.int/direct/application/fr/vote/contentAmend.asp?num=A...
I'm working on this at the moment.
Quoting Ian Clarke ian@dodo.freenetproject.org:
While the dust hasn't settled yet - this looks like a good outcome,
Yes. I hear the Article 2 amendments which define "technical", "technical field", "invention", and "industry" have been adopted. If this is true, we've won this round. (I'm verifying this now, I'll post when done.)
the next hurdle will be getting it accepted by the EC.
[...]Anyway, the question now is where and to whom should we now direct our attention?
"The Council" (Which I'm certain is short for Counsil of Ministers).
This is a committee of 15, one from each country. I haven't checked who the Irish Minister is yet.
Anyone that wants more info on the process can read: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/about/abc/abc_21.html
(halfway down the page, a diagram and text explanation of the "co-decision" procedure)