20/02/2017 (Agence Europe) – The Council of Ministers of the EU adopted conclusions on Monday 20 February in which it calls on the Commission to present a report in the course of 2017 on the development and implications of patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering, so as to address remaining issues identified by the expert group that may need to be clarified in order to increase certainty in this field (see EUROPE 11720). The Council acknowledges that recent...