Hi all,
With great pleasure I forward this press release.
Hopefully this will finally clear the road to a European patent legislature that *does* benefit the public interest!
> DENMARK will ask for B-item in Council > > Press release: > > > Victory for democratic influence on software patents. > > The Danish Parliament (by the EU Committee) has decided to change the > mandate of the Danish government to ensure that on the next meeting in > the EU Council the software patent directive will be discussed as a > B-item instead of passing as an A-item without any discussion. > > Other parliaments have passed resolutions opposing the software patent > directive. But Denmark is the first country to call for a B-item and > thereby reopening the discussion. If just The Netherlands, Germany, > Poland, and Spain backs the Danish request, there will not be a > qualified majority in favor of passing the directive without discussion. > > "This is a victory for the democratic process in the European Union. > Both in Denmark and the rest of Europe there have been a tremendous > interest in this issue.- IT-Political Association is ecstatic now that > there is a very good chance that the all the citizens in Europe will > have a chance to participate in the discussion of the directive," Ole > Tange, board member in IT-Political Association says. "We do not view > this as a failure for the proponents of the directive; if their > arguments are valid they would still have been valid after a democratic > discussion. Though so far we have not seen valid arguments." > > Niels Elgaard Larsen, Anne Østergaard, and Ole Tange from IT-pol.dk > spoke to the EU Committee in Folketinget.dk as part of a delegation also > counting Peter Ussing from PROSA.dk and Peter Mogensen from > Digitalforbruger.dk > > -- > Best > > Anne Østergaard > > IT-Politisk Forening > > (00 45 35 42 88 73)
Vriendelijke groet, Simon Brouwer.
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