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"It is vital to have EU-wide legislation that protects patents in order to defend intellectual property rights. We will be able to have uniform protection in the territories of the participating Member States as well as reduced costs and simplified administrative procedures. I wish to point out that, at the moment, the cost of registering a patent in Europe is about 10 times higher than for a Japanese or North American patent. Therefore, innovation and scientific investigation will benefit and the internal market will be improved at the same time. According to Commissioner Barnier, only Spain and Italy have shown no interest in this enhanced cooperation. However, he does have some legal reservations about the applicability of the enhanced cooperation procedure in this specific case.
In effect, according to Article 328(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, ‘When enhanced cooperation is being established, it shall be open to all Member States, subject to compliance with any conditions of participation laid down by the authorising decision. It shall also be open to them at any other time, subject to compliance with the acts already adopted within that framework, in addition to those conditions’. I would point out that the language arrangements of this enhanced cooperation will consist of just three languages: English, French and German."@en1
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