Brussels, 23/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - The announcement made by the Polish government of its intention to vote against the proposal for a directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, the so-called "Software Patentability Directive", provoked contradictory reactions at the European Parliament (see EUROPE of 19 May, p.11, on the subject of the agreement reached in Council with a vote against from Spain and abstention from Italy, Belgium and Austria, and with a declaration by France supported by Slovenia and Hungary). At the Greens/EFA Group, Eva Lichtenberger notes in a press release that the Polish government, after consultation with the Polish Patents Office, Sun Microsystems, Novell, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, among others, came to the conclusion that the current text "makes practically any software patentable". In the same press release, the President of the Polish Greens, Magda Mosiewicz, welcomes this decision and, in another press release, European CSU member Joachim Wuermeling speaks of "obstruction" on the part of the Polish government, which, he says, gave way to the "panic caused by certain interested circles", when it should be precisely in the interests of a country like Poland for "products from its innovative enterprises not to be filched by Asian pirates".