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". The practices of the European Patent Office are once again subject to debate before this Assembly. Software and computer-implemented inventions were the talking points a few months ago. Today, in a far more serious way which affects the foundations of our moral principles and the essence of our humanity, biotechnology is the talking point. Without doubt, European legislation, in failing to adapt and in allowing grey areas to exist in law, is partly responsible for the current situation, whereby permission has been given for human germ cells to be patented and opposition to a patent on embryonic stem cells has been rendered ineffective. This legislation has to be rapidly revised. We cannot, however, completely exonerate the EPO from this affair. It can never be repeated enough: human beings are not patentable; a human being, as a whole or in part, and whatever its stage of development, is not patentable. It is high time this was spelt out in a binding text."@en1

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