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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Decision by the Patent Office on the cloning of human beings2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000330.3.4-044"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-30-Speech-4-0452
lpv:speaker	lp:Willi Rothley2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2001-07-01)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would thank the Commission for its statement and would urge it to file an official objection to this patent. The Council should give the Commission the mandate to do this. In justification of this, I would point out that it must be the Commission’s job to enforce the directive on bio-patents. It is debatable whether this directive, for which I was the rapporteur, is in fact a suitable tool for managing the problems involved. It would have been helpful if whoever was giving vent to his indignation had taken the trouble to read the patent. He would then have seen that the patent infringes the directive on bio-patents on two counts, firstly because the patent protection extends to include a procedure for modifying human genetic material and, secondly, because the patent protection extends to include the use of embryos for commercial and industrial purposes. These are two clear infringements of the directive on bio-patents. How one might now use this as an opportunity to again cast doubt upon the directive without having read the patent or the directive, I really cannot imagine. Hence, my request to Parliament to the effect that we should not again cast doubt upon the directive, as Mrs Breyer thinks we have to. This is, in fact, the first text in the world to offer a satisfactory solution to the problems involved in patent protection and bio-technological inventions and, what is more, the first text in the world to win universal approval. It is now, therefore, a question not of again bringing the directive into question but of enforcing it."@en1

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