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Re: Medienfinte um "Streichung von Artikel 3"



On 23 Sep 2003, at 0:31, Erich M wrote:

> // Derzeit gibt es jedoch ein weiteres Gerücht, welches glaubwürdiger
> // erscheint:  wenn das Europäische Parlament die Richtlinie
> wesentlich // verbessern und damit die Interessen der
> Softwarepatent-Inhaber schmälern // sollte, werden diese Freunde im
> Europäischen Rat, z.B. BMJ und britische // Regierung, die Richtlinie
> zu Fall bringen.  
> 
> Gerade die Briten haben ihre eigene, regionalen Patentgesetze
> restriktiver gehandhabt als andere in Europa, wurde mir gestern
> nachmittag telefonisch vom EPA erklärt. Weiss noch nicht, ob das
> stimmt.

Die geplante RiLi wird im "Codecision"-Verfahren gemacht: Ohne den 
Rat laeuft _nichts_.

  http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/cig/g4000c.htm

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[...]

Codecision procedure

The codecision procedure (Article 251 of the EC Treaty, formerly 
Article 189b) was introduced by the Treaty of Maastricht. It gives 
the European Parliament the power to adopt instruments jointly with 
the Council. The procedure comprises one, two or three readings. It 
has the effect of increasing contacts between the Parliament and the 
Council, the co-legislators, and with the European Commission. In 
practice, it has strengthened the Parliament's legislative powers in 
the following fields: the free movement of workers, right of 
establishment, services, the internal market, education (incentive 
measures), health (incentive measures), consumer policy, trans-
European networks (guidelines), environment (general action 
programme), culture (incentive measures) and research (framework 
programme).

The Treaty of Amsterdam has simplified the codecision procedure, 
making it quicker and more effective and strengthening the role of 
the Parliament. In addition it has been extended to new areas such as 
social exclusion, public health and the fight against fraud affecting 
the European Community's financial interests.

Increasing the democratic nature of Community action requires the 
Parliament to participate in exercising legislative power. Thus, any 
legislative instrument adopted by qualified majority is likely to 
fall within the scope of the codecision procedure. In most cases, 
therefore, codecision in the Parliament goes hand in hand with 
qualified majority voting in the Council. For some provisions of the 
Treaty, however, codecision and unanimity still coexist.

The Treaty of Nice partially puts an end to this situation. The 
Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) launched in February 2000 called 
for an extension of the scope of codecision, in parallel with and as 
a supplement to the extension of qualified majority voting in the 
Council. Seven provisions for which the IGC planned to apply 
qualified majority voting are thus also subject to codecision. They 
are: incentives to combat discrimination, judicial cooperation in 
civil matters, specific industrial support measures, economic and 
social cohesion actions (outside the Structural Funds), the statute 
for European political parties and measures relating to visas, asylum 
and immigration. On the other hand, the IGC did not extend the 
codecision procedure to legislative measures already subject to 
qualified majority voting (such as agricultural or commercial 
policy). There is therefore no definitive link yet between qualified 
majority voting and the codecision procedure for all legislative 
decisions.  

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Wenn das Europaeische Parlament den Bogen ueberspannt und eine 1:1 
FFII-kompatible Fassung beschliesst, wird das danach dann 
schliesslich sicherlich am Rat scheitern.

Wo genau die Schmerzschwelle liegen wird, ab der der Rat die Schose 
kippt, kann ich aber auch nicht abschaetzen.

--AHH

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