#title: European Parliament and Software Patents #descr: The European Parliament has less rights than a national parliament. Most importantly, it cannot itself propose legislation and it has only a negative voting power that again cannot block all EU legislation projects. However it has the right to block the CEC/BSA software patentability directive proposal, and it has used this right in September 2003. #Erm: EuroParl Committees #Esg: EuroParl Members by political group and county #SgW: Search mask to get lists of e. g. JURI members #doc: Codecision Procedure #dda: The legislation procedure under which the software patent directive is decided by the EU institutions. Explanations by Xavier Drudis Ferran (Caliu). # Local Variables: ; # coding: utf-8 ; # srcfile: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/phm/sys/mlht.el ; # mailto: mlhtimport@ffii.org ; # login: phm ; # passwd: YYYYY ; # feature: swpatdir ; # dok: swpateuroparl ; # txtlang: en ; # multlin: t ; # End: ;