Brussels, 18/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - German Christian-Democrat Peter Liese MEP would like France and Germany to transpose into their national legislation the 1998 directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions as soon as possible. While acknowledging that the text is not perfect, he points out that it had been adopted at the end of bitter negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council and that some of the wording may be made more precise in the framework of...