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3 unusual facts about Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions


Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions

According to SmithKline Beecham lobbyist Simon Gentry, the company allocated 30 million ECU from the start for a pro-Directive campaign.

On December 13, 1995, the Commission adopted a new proposal was nearly identical to the rejected version, was changed again, but the Parliament put aside its ethical concerns on patenting of human genes in on July 12, 1998 in its second reading and adopted the Common Position of the Council, so in the second legislative process, the directive was adopted.

The European Parliament eventually rejected the joint text from the final Conciliation meeting at 3rd reading on March 1, 1995 so the first directive process did not yield a directive.



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