[Fsfe-uk] Re: [Fsfe-ie] Swpat vote set for Tuesday, with public deliberation

[James Heald]

Fergal Daly wrote:

> Where can I get the actual text that is being considered? I couldn't find a
> link to it on FFII,

Latest text we have is the version for which we believe the Presidency 
managed to get a qualified majority on COREPER (dated 3 May 2004)

HTML conversion:
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/cons0401/st09051/st09051.html

Original pdf:
http://vitke:address@hidden/papers/europarl0309/cons0401/SRC/st09051.en.pdf


There is a subsequent document, the final "report" from the Presidency 
to the Council of Ministers, but we believe the body of it is identical.


> F
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 01:16:14AM +0100, James Heald wrote:
>
> > NB. See FFII breaking news wiki for very latest information, at
> >         http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
> >
> >
> > It looks as though there's a chance things may be moving in our favour.
> >
> >
> > The agenda for the Competitiveness Council meeting has been published, 
> > with a full discussion now scheduled on the Software Patents directive; 
> > furthermore the discussion is to be in public, ie with press and 
> > visitors able to listen in with 11-way translation.
> > http://ue.eu.int/cms3_applications/Applications/newsRoom/loadbook.asp?BID=880&LANG=1&cmsId=364
> >
> > We don't yet know whether there's any chance of it being webcast.
> >
> >
> > This a big step forward from the official EU media briefing, published 
> > only on Friday morning, which said the directive was due to be 
> > rubberstamped as an 'A-item' without discussion.
> > http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guestfr.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=MEMO/04/114%7C0%7CRAPID&lg=EN&display=
> >
> >
> > The EU media briefing also tries very hard to play the play up the Irish 
> > draft as a 'compromise' position.
> >
> > But it's clear from this report from Paul Meller that by the time of the 
> > press conference this afternoon journalists were obviously well enough 
> > briefed that the EU spokesman had to confirm everything we'd said:
> > http://www.itworld.com/Man/2687/040514eupatents/
> >
> >
> > The national positions won't finally be clear until we hear what 
> > actually gets said on Tuesday, but there are signs that there may be an 
> > increasing number of ministers with concerns about the text, and a very 
> > real possibility that a number of countries may seek a delay to give time to
> >
> > * achieve more unity;
> > * investigate further the concerns about
> >     - freedom of discussion
> >     - interoperability
> >     - scope of what is and what is not 'technical';
> > * produce a text more likely to pass the European Parliament.
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, as best we know, the UK and Ireland are still pushing 
> > all-out for the Presidency text.
> >
> >
> >
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