At the end of the first Competitiveness Council work day on Monday 29 May in Brussels, the Commissioner for the Internal Market and Industry, Elżbieta Bieńkowska, expressed her regret and concern at the delay in ratifying the protocol for the provisional application of the unitary patent.
The Commissioner informed the press that “today had been the day normally targeted for launching the provisional protocol” and added that she found this situation a “surprise”. She then expressed...