Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:39:49 +0100
From: PILCH Hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ffii] EU-Rat: Was die Bundesregierung noch tun
kann]
Among the Council diplomats in the Mertens group yesterday no
resistance was uttered against the plans of the Dutch presidency
to press the software patent agreement of May 18th through at the
fishery or environment council early next week.
Meanwhile some countries have issued unilateral statements on this
directive in which they more or less clearly distance themselves
from the proposed text.
All governments currently have the following possibilities:
- Insert unilateral position statements, state clearly what the country
wants
- Reject the Council Presidency's "reasoning" text of late November and
ask for a worthy reasoning paper to be written before adoption
- Ask for the agreement to be treated as a B item (or signal that the
government would support such a move by another government)
Please call the Council diplomats of your country or the people in the
ministries that are being put in charge by the presidency, i.e. those
for fishery and the environment. Contact the helpdesk of your country
(e.g. uk-help, it-help etc) to ask for advice or share experiences.
For more, see
http://kwiki.ffii.org/Cons041213En
http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
350,000 votes 3000 firms against software patents http://noepatents.org/
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