[Fsfe-ie] Swpat vote set for Tuesday, with public deliberation
James Heald
j.heald at ucl.ac.uk
Sun May 16 11:43:29 CEST 2004
Fergal Daly wrote:
> Where can I get the actual text that is being considered? I couldn't find a
> link to it on FFII,
Latest text we have is the version for which we believe the Presidency
managed to get a qualified majority on COREPER (dated 3 May 2004)
HTML conversion:
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/cons0401/st09051/st09051.html
Original pdf:
http://vitke:mipri@swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/cons0401/SRC/st09051.en.pdf
There is a subsequent document, the final "report" from the Presidency
to the Council of Ministers, but we believe the body of it is identical.
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> On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 01:16:14AM +0100, James Heald wrote:
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>>NB. See FFII breaking news wiki for very latest information, at
>> http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
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>>
>>It looks as though there's a chance things may be moving in our favour.
>>
>>
>>The agenda for the Competitiveness Council meeting has been published,
>>with a full discussion now scheduled on the Software Patents directive;
>>furthermore the discussion is to be in public, ie with press and
>>visitors able to listen in with 11-way translation.
>>http://ue.eu.int/cms3_applications/Applications/newsRoom/loadbook.asp?BID=880&LANG=1&cmsId=364
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>>We don't yet know whether there's any chance of it being webcast.
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>>This a big step forward from the official EU media briefing, published
>>only on Friday morning, which said the directive was due to be
>>rubberstamped as an 'A-item' without discussion.
>>http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guestfr.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=MEMO/04/114%7C0%7CRAPID&lg=EN&display=
>>
>>
>>The EU media briefing also tries very hard to play the play up the Irish
>>draft as a 'compromise' position.
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>>But it's clear from this report from Paul Meller that by the time of the
>>press conference this afternoon journalists were obviously well enough
>>briefed that the EU spokesman had to confirm everything we'd said:
>>http://www.itworld.com/Man/2687/040514eupatents/
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>>The national positions won't finally be clear until we hear what
>>actually gets said on Tuesday, but there are signs that there may be an
>>increasing number of ministers with concerns about the text, and a very
>>real possibility that a number of countries may seek a delay to give time to
>>
>> * achieve more unity;
>> * investigate further the concerns about
>> - freedom of discussion
>> - interoperability
>> - scope of what is and what is not 'technical';
>> * produce a text more likely to pass the European Parliament.
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>>
>>On the other hand, as best we know, the UK and Ireland are still pushing
>>all-out for the Presidency text.
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