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Story: EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Posted by: Hartmut Pilch (Friday 1 April 2005, 2:31 AM)
Who took which decision?
Who is the anonymous MEP quoted in this article?
And how does this MEP explain what happened on the 7th? Did Denmark ask for reopening of negotiations or did it not? Can the EP answer the 23 questions that we have asked the Council?
http://wiki.ffii.org/LtrFfiiCons050308En
Do they want to know?
The JURI Committee is very diverse, some MEPs there want to know, others don't.
The overall tendency is however to start a 2nd reading on the basis of the Uncommon Position, and to treat the rule violations of the Council as an internal matter of that institution, leaving it to member states to decide whether they want to bring it into order. The ministerial officials of course will not bring it into order, because the violation served what in their eyes is a noble cause: assuring that national parliaments don't get any opportunity to make Council processes "inefficient". And the national Parliaments have long given up the idea that they could control the Council.
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