Initiatives based on utilising the work of other offices as well as an international harmonisation of substantive patent law (comprising a worldwide harmonised grace period to be elaborated with all its associated issues), can further strengthen the patent system in the longer term and contribute to further reducing costs.

22. Considers therefore that, as it is in the best interests of the European Union and the Member States to increase workers’ mobility, obstacles to internal and cross-border mobility must be removed and issues such as lack of transferability, long vesting periods, preservation of dormant rights, non-regression and differences in tax treatment and actuarial principles must be addressed;

If the conditions included in the marketing authorisation are not fulfilled within the deadline set, the competent authorities should have the power and appropriate resources to immediately suspend or revoke the marketing authorisation.

If the conditions included in the marketing authorisation are not fulfilled within the corresponding deadline, the competent authorities should have the power and appropriate resources to immediately suspend or revoke the marketing authorisation.

By way of derogation from Article 280 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, decisions of the General Court declaring a regulation to be void shall take effect only as from the date of expiry of the period referred to in the first paragraph of Article 56 of this Statute or, if an appeal shall have been brought within that period, as from the date of dismissal of the appeal, without prejudice, however, to the right of a party to apply to the Court of Justice, pursuant to Articles 278 and 279 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or Article 157 of the EAEC Treaty, for the suspension of the effects of the regulation which has been declared void or ...[+++]for the prescription of any other interim measure.

Such a measure is not a measure which may be the subject of an action for annulment under Article 230 EC, and the failure to adopt such a measure may likewise not be challenged by an action for failure to act under Article 232 EC (Case 90/78 Granaria v Council and Commission [1979] ECR 1081, paragraph 12 et seq.; orders in Case T-167/95 Kuchlenz-Winter v Council [1996] ECR II‑1607, paragraph 20 et seq.; Case T-175/96 Berthu v Commission [1997] ECR II‑811, paragraph 18 et seq.; and of 1 December 1999 in Case T‑198/99 Buchbinder and ...[+++]Nöcker v Commission, not published in the ECR, paragraph 11).