Re: [Patents] Council Presidency "Adopts" Software Patent Agreement

[Marcel Martin <mm@ellipsa.net>]

Jonas Maebe wrote:

> On 7 mrt 2005, at 13:48, Kristoff Bonne wrote:
>
> >  The question now is:
> >  - who at the EP has to take up this task of "looking if it is indeed 
> > a common position"?
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3z2m4
>
> >  - Is there something we can do? (AFAIK, every EU citizen has the 
> > right to start a case at the EU court if she thinks that her rights 
> > are violated by a descision of the EU). (the question here is "as the 
> > descision still has to go to the parliament for second reading; can we 
> > speak of a "EU descision" or not?)
>
>
> No, that is only possible after the directive has been adopted (i.e., 
> when the procedure ends). For now, only member states or the EP can go 
> to the ECJ. I don't know yet what the best course of action is for now, 
> a lot depends on what the JURI committee, the EP rapporteur and the EP 
> president will decide to do regarding rule 57.
>
> Another thing is that a member state may reject the minutes of the 
> Council session (although that's probably even more controversial than 
> asking for a B item).


Personnellement, je vais renvoyer ma carte d'électeur à la
Présidence de la République Française en précisant bien que je
n'irai pas voter pour la constitution européenne tant qu'une
commission d'enquête n'aura pas établi que certains membres du
Conseil Européen n'ont pas été corrompus et, surtout, par qui
ils n'ont pas été corrompus.

J'espère que mon humour sera apprécié. Mais j'en doute.

En tout état de cause, puisque ce sont des conseils
d'administration d'entreprises américaines qui décident de ce
que la législation européenne doit être, il est parfaitement
inutile d'aller voter.

mm
--
Contrary to the Irish Presidency and, seemingly, some Council
Members, I claim that I am not sponsored by Microsoft.