We are completely exposed today to chemical risks, much more so than to oil risks, and we know that what is transported on Europe’s seas is often very dangerous.

We later discovered that there is a fuller, six-page document, and I would simply ask you here today if, in the spirit of loyal cooperation set down in Article 10, you would clarify to this House – perhaps to the Conference of Presidents – whether the minutes received by the chairman of our temporary committee were indeed a full or just a partial record of the proceedings of that meeting.

The discovery of the sequencing of the human genome at the end of 2000 heralds a revolutionary new scientific age.

The discovery of the sequencing of the human genome at the end of 2000 heralds a revolutionary new scientific age.

Through their contacts with – often public – research laboratories they undoubtedly supplement public funding, which frequently needs supplementing, and enables discoveries to be made.

(13) Whereas the Community's legal framework for the protection of biotechnological inventions can be limited to laying down certain principles as they apply to the patentability of biological material as such, such principles being intended in particular to determine the difference between inventions and discoveries with regard to the patentability of certain elements of human origin, to the scope of protection conferred by a patent on a biotechnological invention, to the right to use a deposit mechanism in addition to written descriptions and lastly to the option of obtaining non-exclusive compulsory licences in respect of interdepende ...[+++]nce between plant varieties and inventions, and conversely;