Re: [Patents] patents in europe...

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

El Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:34:59AM +0200, critto@wp.pl deia:
> among the EU voters  -- yet :)) but most of all y'all are) ?? What if 
> one asks a MEP, and the MEP doesn't answer, or answers in a 
> deceptive and meaningless way; what are the procedures of 
> complaint for such an arrogant and nasty behavior?? What are the 
> penalties for MEPs for doing so ?? 
>


A MEP does not have to answer. You won't probably vote him/her
if she/he doesn't though. There's just too many citizens for too litle
MEPs, they would be subject to DoS if they had to answer. Besides, 
MPs (I guess MEPs too) are not so easy to sue for normal offenses 
as normal people (I think it's also to avoid DoS attacks, or something). 
So it surely makes no sense to punish them for not answering citizens.
 
> 
> > > I'd love to contact her with a letter; if you have any pattern of such a
> > > text, please feel free to forward it, and I will send it (but I must
> > > know her address; I don't care that it's not 'my mep', I may contact all
> > > of them, regardless of a country)
> > 
> > www.eurolinux.org , as Hartmut said.
> 
> OK, but when can I find a pattern there? Now, there is only a link to 
> main FFII page (this one about patents, swpat.ffii.org). And as for 
> petition, I've signed it long time ago (and it has been passed to the 
> EP already, so it's 'a day after the fair' now). 
>

Last time I went there was instructions on how to adopt a MEP. Are you 
mistaking petition.ffii.org with petition.eurolinux.org ? 
 


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Xavi Drudis Ferran
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