Activities of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2012/2092(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013 - all sections (debate)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. With regard to patenting in matters of public health and food safety, Commission must ensure that programmes, public or private research bodies and scientists whose research is funded by the Union budget, also patent their inventions in the EU ; as inventions in matters of public health and food safety are excluded from patentability where the implementation of the process requires either the prior destruction of human embryos or their prior use as base material, even if, in the patent application, the description of that process does not refer to the use of human embryos (cf. ECJ case law C-34/10), this type of research related to public health and food safety should be excluded from EU funding ;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Section 1 – paragraph 15 a (new)
Section 1 – paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Within the EU law, any invention related to public health or food safety is excluded from patentability where the implementation of the process requires either the prior destruction of human embryos or their prior use as base material, even if, in the patent application, the description of that process does not refer to the use of human embryos1 ; therefore the Union should not fund any private or public body accepting either the prior destruction of human embryos or their prior use as base material for research, or fund any research project which requires either the prior destruction of human embryos or their prior use as base material, as the scientific outcome is excluded from patentability; __________________ 1 Case law C-34/10, Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 18 October 2011, Oliver Brüstle c. Greenpeace