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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competitiveness council

EU divided on how to improve protection of IPR - 2007 report on Commission strategy

Brussels, 04/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - The debate on innovation strategy reopened the eternal divisions in EU Member States about how to improve protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), particularly patents, during the Competitiveness Council on Monday 4 December. All the different delegations agreed on the need to simplify the system in an effort to reduce costs to enterprise but were opposed on how to reach this objective. Mauri Pekkarinen, the Finnish minister for trade and...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: European Commission recommendation on negotiations with Turkey is wise, but does not resolve any of the fundamental problems
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Jacques Chirac and Angela Merkel to discuss idea of new deadline to re-evaluate Turkey's progress
(EU) EU/NEIGHBOURHOOD: European Commission's proposals to improve European neighbourhood policy (ENP)
(EU) EU/CONGO: Commission intends to double aid to DRC to support reconstruction of State - Louis Michel to attend investiture of Joseph Kabila
(EU) EU/KAZAKHSTAN: signature of energy cooperation agreement -
Mr Barroso supports Kazakhstan's application for presidency of OSCE in 2009
(EU) EU/OSCE: Erkki Tuomioja hopes OSCE will continue to play important role in South-East Europe
(EU) EU/EUROPEANS OF THE YEAR: European Voice nominees for 2006
(EU) EU/BALKANS:
(EU) EU/JHA/TURKEY:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/INNOVATION STRATEGY: Competitiveness council highlights IPR, joint technological initiatives and standardisation
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL: EU divided on how to improve protection of IPR - 2007 report on Commission strategy
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL: Wide support from Member States for proposal to modernise Community customs code
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: Ministers, aware of “insufficient progress” on police and legal cooperation, are, in the majority, reluctant to allow European Council to take abandonment of the right of veto further - France proposes compromise solution
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: Agreement on setting up European agency for fundamental rights
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL/CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Judges will be able to take previous convictions in other Member States into account
(EU) EU/HEALTH: In tricky health services dossier, some Member States want to link legal security of patients to healthcare systems
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Commission recommends abolition of capital duty on capital contributions by 2010
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: North Sea quotas agreed with Norway
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: New EU-Mauritania fishing agreement adopted
(EU) EP/ECONOMY: Pervenche Berès calls on Europe to move forward in economic and financial matters
(EU) EU/KOSOVO: Council approves €150 million in financial assistance to Kosovo
(EU) EU/CHEMICAL PRODUCTS: EP/Council compromise on REACH provokes contrasting reactions, but should lead to second reading agreement on 13 December
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: Vocational education and training the focus of Informal Council in Helsinki on 4 and 5 December
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Sweden's State monopoly on retail sales of alcoholic beverages means conditional ban on private imports
(EU) EU/COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS: José Manuel Barroso and Commissioner Stavros Dimas at CoR plenary (6/7 December)
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: IACA concerned about stigmatisation of air transport
(EU) EU/REGIONS/KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY:
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 711
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