Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-053"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Patentability of computer-implemented inventions2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030923.2.2-053"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-23-Speech-2-0542
lpv:speaker	lp:Marianne Thyssen2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams (2001-10-01--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, if it were up to the EVP (Evangelical People’s party), there would be no software patents at all, and if it were up to you, Commissioner, there would not be any either. This is how I understood it, after I received the proposal and after I read the existing legislation – and the innumerable letters we have all been receiving – more than once. Many people in our group support the starting points and the objectives in the Commission’s proposal. Commissioner, I hope that you will be able to support a number of amendments which have been submitted on behalf of our group and which – building on Mrs McCarthy’s report and the report by the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market – define matters more clearly and put more flesh on the bones of the monitoring task. I do not believe the assertions that are persistently doing the rounds that this proposal would be a bad thing for small- and medium-sized enterprises. More legal certainty and uniform application of the legal rules in the internal market are things small- and medium-sized enterprises have a particular need of. In my view, small- and medium-sized enterprises do not have a specific problem with this directive, but they do have a general problem with the patent system as such. Much of the criticism in the letters boils down to that. This is true both when they enjoy the protection of a patent themselves and when they have to deal with the patent rights of others. Hence my question, Commissioner, as to whether you and your administration could not think creatively about how we can achieve a European approach that will enable small- and medium-sized enterprises to improve their position in patent land. I have not submitted an amendment on this as I think that this text is not an appropriate place for this from a legal point of view. I do, however, think that it is important enough to make this suggestion now from a political point of view, and I would therefore appreciate it very much if you could give me an answer."@en1

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