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"Mr President. Industrial intellectual property rights are a useful instrument for the economy and for society in general, and I believe it is only natural to want to tailor them to Community requirements in an internal market. I therefore welcome the Commission’s proposal to create a Community patent. I should also like to extend my thanks to the rapporteur for all the work she has done. However, I do not see eye to eye with her on one particular item, namely that of the language regime.
In my view, a Community-based approach also presupposes respect for the Community principle, including the use of language. And the fact that the discussions on the use of languages have never been absent from the agenda in the debates says a great deal, in my view. I have also listened very carefully to my fellow French, Italian, German and Spanish MEPs and have ascertained that everyone is calling for a scheme in which their own language is still used to the fullest extent.
Since as long ago as 1958, the citizens of the Member States have had the right to use their own official language in their communication with the European institutions, and also when they communicate before legal bodies of the Community. In fact, we even enshrined this in a treaty in Amsterdam. However, while the citizen is given the impression that progress is being made in their linguistic rights, these are increasingly being undermined, and that is certainly the case in the sector of intellectual property rights. First there was the Trademarks Bureau; this was followed by the drawings and models, and now there is also the patent regulation. Since then, we have also witnessed a – fortunately frustrated – attempt to no longer translate even generally binding standards which enhance our book-keeping into all official languages.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would therefore urge you to vote consciously tomorrow, to send out a signal to the Council and the Commission to very carefully reconsider the articles concerning the language regime. We must really prevent a new clause from being added to the list of incidents of unjustifiable discrimination against languages when the regulation on the Community patent enters into force. I therefore call on you to study these language amendments very carefully and to support them."@en1
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