Le mercredi 22 novembre 2023 à 09:05 +0100, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > On 11/21/23 22:26, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I note that this is not the first law proposal that impact Debian and we > > never > > did used the GR process for issuing a position statement. > > > > The DPL could delegate to a group of people knowledgeable in EU law to draft > > a statement that is congruent with the interest of Debian > > > EU law is significantly different from US law and publishing a statement > > that > > either misrepresent the CRA or the current state of EU law is not likely to > > be taken seriously, so we need some care. > > > > We have legitimate reasons to feel concerned by the impact of this law, but > > all the more reasons to act cautiously. > > Excuse me to insist with vocabulary, but since you've use the word "law" > 6 times above: the EU isn't a state or a nation, and doesn't make laws.
Just a minor note: the EU actually issues laws, they’re called “regulation” in the EU jargon¹. But indeed a “directive” (as in the CRA case) is something different, and as you say opens up the possibility of a fight at the national level. > We're talking about "directives", that eventually will be implemented as > laws in each member state. This is a huge difference that make it > possible to fight the CRA at multiple levels. This also mean that the > CRA wording isn't as important as the wording of its implementation as a > law in each member state. > > Also, once the directive is passed, it's still theoretically possible to > fight its wording in each state. Seen the other way around: it's > possible that the implementation as a law in each country is worse than > then directive itself, we must pay attention to it (it's probably even > more difficult for us this way, as there will be 27 implementations to > take care of). ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
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