Re: [Fsfe-uk] EU Parliament Votes for Real Limits on Patentability

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:05:25PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2003-09-24 17:24:56 +0100 Alex Hudson <address@hidden> wrote:
> >It seems it has to go before the 15 member states before it gets a
> >second reading in Parliament, if I understand the process (please
> >someone correct me if wrong), so they get a chance to scupper the 
> >deal.
> 
> That's pretty much it.  Parliament and the council of ministers 
> (representatives of the 15 governments) now have a compromise 
> procedure before it is finalised.  I posted a link explaining the 
> process some weeks ago but failed to make a note of it myself.  
> http://www.europarl.eu.int/factsheets/1_4_1_en.htm might be it.  Which 
> procedure is this using?

co-decision procedure.

the link you posted was:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/about/abc/abc_21.html

ciaran.