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Mr President, I am disappointed with the Commissioner’s speech. The designer patent is scandalous. It is most definitely illegal, clearly contravenes the Patent Directive and signifies the commercialisation of human breeding.
The Patent Directive clearly excludes the patenting of germ line cells. Even sex-selection techniques are prohibited in almost all Member States. This patent thus opens the way for designer humans, for custom-made human beings. It is unacceptable for the Commission, the guardian of the Treaties, to stand by and do nothing while this violation of the EU Patent Directive takes place. Neither Parliament nor the Commission can stand by and do nothing while patents are granted for human breeding. This is no invention, by the way; it is at most a discovery, and it, too, quite clearly contravenes the Patent Directive.
The European Union needs to take up a clear position. The Commission is burying its head in the sand in the face of the inconsistencies and errors in the text of the Directive. It is remaining inactive out of fear of the urgently needed revision of the Directive. In its report and also here today, the Commission has unambiguously admitted that the harmonisation of patent law on biotechnology is no longer a given, as some Member States impose very clear limits on the multifunctionality of genes.
Nor does the Commission venture any clarification on the issue of the patentability of embryonic stem cells. If it excludes human embryos – and thus parts of a human being – from patentability, it is not following the Council’s interpretation. The Commission President has actually been called on to do so.
I was also disappointed that the Commissioner did not devote a single word to the patents granted wholesale for seeds, plants and animals, nor to infringements of the Directive, for example the failure to investigate the suffering of animals. These are clear omissions on the part of the Commission. We would call on the Commission to advance beyond mere monitoring and finally take some action."@en1
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