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6 unusual facts about EU Council


Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions

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.

EU Council

The Council of the European Union (occasionally named "Council of Ministers", simply "The Council", also stylised in Latin as Consilium)

Council of Europe, entirely separate international organisation founded in 1949, headquartered in Strasbourg, France

Inter Expo Center - Tsarigradsko shose Metro Station

Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money.

Mladost 3 Metro Station

Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was massively funded with EU money.

Supplementary protection certificate

According to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92, the scope of an SPC extends "only to the product covered by the authorization to place the corresponding medicinal product on the market and for any use of the product as a medicinal product that has been authorized before the expiry of the certificate".



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Council of the European Union

Following the entry into force of a framework agreement between the EU and ESA there is a Space Council configuration – joint and concomitant meeting of the EU Council and of the ESA Council at ministerial level dealing with the implementation of the ESP adopted by both organisations.