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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is every likelihood that this Parliament will shortly reject the proposed Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions. All our major groups, and even – I beg their pardon – the smaller ones, have taken this decision, albeit for contradictory reasons. I have neither a mandate nor any official capacity here to comment on those reasons. However, this convergence has a common significance. On the merits of the question, we are split roughly 50/50, making the result totally unpredictable with a relative majority, and with a bilateral impossibility of achieving a qualified majority. Each of our parliamentary groups prefers to reject the text rather than to adopt the other’s opinions. Above all, however, there is a collective and unanimous anger on the part of the entire Parliament at the unacceptable way it has been treated by the Commission and the Council.
A total and cynical contempt for the choices made by Parliament at first reading. A total absence of any consultation by the Commission in drafting the text for the second reading. Repeated attempts even to stop discussions between Governments within the Council itself. As a matter of principle, this is scandalous enough. The crisis in Europe today has a lot to do with the deficit of democracy, an area where the Council has an overwhelming responsibility, as it has proved amply on this issue. Let us hope that this rejection is a lesson to it!
On the merits of the issue, the state of opinion, as reflected here, clearly shows that the problem is not yet ripe for a decision. Only with a more in-depth debate could it have matured into a wider consensus. On this vital and highly challenging subject – with several tens of billions of dollars at stake each year – a collective awareness is clearly beginning to emerge. In that context, rejection is a message directed at the European Patent Office. The European Parliament has refused to ratify the recent judicial errors by extending the scope of patentability to certain software programs. If these errors were to continue, it now seems clear that a parliamentary majority would emerge to put a stop to them."@en1
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