[Patents] Decision making procedure for the swpat directive

["Jozef Halbersztadt" <halber@timsi.pl>]

>
> It will be a codecision procedure, see:
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> http://europa.eu.int/prelex/aide.cfm?CL=en&page=procdec#450
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> It seems the first vote is in the European Parliament by qualified
majority
> (is that 75% ?).

The opinions of the EuroParliament in the co-decision procedure are
adopted by simple majority voting, I think. A qualified majority is
about voting in the Council (heads of governments).
http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/cig/g4000q.htm
But the most important for the future of the CEC proposal are open
debates in the EuroParliament and possibility of amendments that can
change everything. I think we should campaign with shorter version of
the FFII counter-proposal.
http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/eubsa-swpat0202/#prop
We should also demand debate's in Member States parliaments.

Regards
Jozef Halbersztadt

> But even if they reject it, the
> Council (ministers of member states) has a say and may have it voted
again
> in Parliament, this time with simple majority (but absolute majority
for
> ammending it). And it goes on a little more...
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> Xavi Drudis Ferran
> xdrudis@tinet.org
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