02/07/2015

Intervention of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' (PS) at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Pierre-Yves Le Borgn', a French Member of Parliament, made an intervention at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 25 June 2015.

Mr Le Borgn' explained the rollback of fundamental rights at the European Patent Office (EPO) and referred to the Report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights from Mr José María Beneyto, Accountability of international organizations for human rights violations:

"I make appeal to the Member States, from whom the European Patent holds its legitimacy, to act, because now is the time to act."

The intervention is available on YouTube. A transcript is available here.
Translations inEnglish,German andDutch are available by scrolling through the document.