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#title: EU Council and Software Patents

#descr: Watching, Understanding and influencing the Council of Ministers of
the European Union, especially with regard to policy fields close to
Software and Patents.

#FfiiUkCouncilT: FFII UK: Lobbying the Council of Europe

#FfiiUkCouncilD: How decisionmaking in the Council works and what this means for the
amended software patent directive

#esm: Competitiveness Council members

#niW: The Competitiveness Council is an organ of the Council of Ministers
which is in charge of negotiations on the swpat directive.  The
following are national members.

#iui: discussions about the Council and how to influence it

#Wve: Defend (and improve) the %(ad:directive as amended by the European
Parliament).

#WrW: Obtain national support for the Europarl's amendments to the
directive.

#lvo: See also the relevant %(pr:projects).

#dor: Web addresses of various national parliaments

#nut: Contact politicians in your country in order to influence the position
of the %(sc:European Council).  Subscribe to / help administrate one
of the following national mailing lists or found your own national
mailing list:

#arp: Note that you can help defend the European Parliament's Directive also
at the international level.  One of the main weapons of the patent
lawyer lobby will be the %(tr:TRIPs Fallacy), i.e. pushing for false
interpretations of the TRIPs treaty and asserting these in the WTO or
threatening to do so.  Such threats, even if completely groundless,
will serve patent administrators in the council as a pretext for
defacing the Parliament's directive or withdrawing the directive
project from the EU.

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