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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8901

4 March 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/software patents
Restarting the legislative procedure would create “chaos” according to Charlie McCreevy, who would like to see Council formalise its agreement of June 2004

Brussels, 03/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, in a reportedly tense meeting with the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament, the internal market Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy, defended the Commission's position over the controversial possibility of restarting the legislative procedure relating to the proposal for a directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions. McCreeevy reiterated what President José Manuel Barroso had already told Josep Borrell in a...

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