Re: [Patents] Scientists protest EU software patents (fwd)

[Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>]

El Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:28:38AM +0100, James Heald deia:

> 
> > None of this is a good reason to think anxiety is premature. It is
> > premature in the sense that the lawsuits for swpats under the CEC
> > proposal are not coming tomorrow, but it is certainly not premature in
> > that any effort to fix the cause of anxiety should target the planned
> > 22.5.2003 vote in JURI Committe (most important) and 18.6.2003 vote in
> > plenary (last chance for public input to change the result).
> 
> 
> Is there any other source for the 22 May JURI date other than the
> parliament's Observatory website ?
>

No, but I have been tracking this page a little 
(we mean 
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/oeil/oeil_ViewDNL.ProcedureView?lang=2&procid=5974
) 
And I can tell you, if that's any useful: 
Dates announced there have been (for plenary):

10.2.2003, 7.4.2003, 2.6.2003, 12.5.2003.

(for JURI)
 3.12.2002, 18.3.2003 , 28 or 29.4.2003


then 
on 
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:11:19 +0200 (CEST)
none of those dates were shown in that page, 
and in 
 Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:07:22 +0200 (CEST)
 new dates were there:

 PE - Forthcoming adoption by parliamentary committee:22/05/2003
PE - Probable part-session by the DGI:18/06/2003
PE - Probable part-session: DGII coordination:18/06/2003

> I had kind of assumed that that was just a misprint for the 22 April
> meeting.
> 

It was introduced in April 25, 2003 correcting the 28 or 29.4.2003 
date, so I don't think it was a typo.
 
> The vote for approval of the amended draft appeared to be on the order
> paper for JURI today.  
>

Have you rechecked the agenda
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep/owa/p_calag.oj?ipid=0&imn=3625&ilg=EN&iorig=committees
I haven't but did after the last change in dates, and IIRC it only said 
"consideration"
 
> Can anybody confirm *definitively* that final vote on JURI is not be
> until next month, and with certainty that the directive was not actually
> voted on at JURI this afternoon ?

Definetely?, an Europarl date?. Not at all.

-- 
Xavi Drudis Ferran
xdrudis@tinet.org