Since I'm not in the EU, I have to ask...
Posted May 8, 2004 12:33 UTC (Sat) by
ecureuil (subscriber, #3507)
In reply to:
Since I'm not in the EU, I have to ask... by flewellyn
Parent article:
FFII: EU Ambassadors vote to back Software Patents
This council represents the European national governements which are
elected.
If the commission and the council rejects the law voted by the European
Parliament there will propose a new text in second reading to the
Parliament and there is a compromise mechanism to try to find a middle
ground between the Commission position and the Parliament position.
It won't happen before June when Europeans elect a new Parliament. They
will certainly be a huge increase in the next Parliament of populist
anti-european parties. What will be their position on Patent law ? My
guess, is that it is a much too complex problem for their little closed
minds. The Commission is also going to fall at one point or another as
Romano Prodi looks more and more interested to run for office in Italy.
What will be the next steps for the Software Patent directive ? It can be
buried and left to the next commisison if it seems that there is not
enough consensus or the commission
could try to push it through a new untested Parliament hoping that they
will undo what the precedent Parliament did.
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