Activities of Manuel MEDINA ORTEGA related to 2008/2063(INI)
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that the Treaty of Lisbon includes a new legal basis providing for codecision in respect of intellectual property rights, in that Article 97a of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TEFU) provides: ‘In the context of the establishment and functioning of the internal market, the European Parliament and the Council, acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, shall establish measures for the creation of European intellectual property rights to provide uniform protection of intellectual property rights throughout the Union and for the setting up of centralised Union- wide authorisation, coordination and supervision arrangements’; deplores the fact that unanimity and mere consultation of Parliament have been retained as the decision-making procedure as regards the language arrangements with regard to intellectual property rightrecognises that the principle of equality of the official languages, being an EU constitutional principle, rules out the possibility of adopting agreements altering the language arrangements without a vote in favour by all Member States;