[Discussioni]richiesta da FFII per la campagna contro i brevetti software

[Francesco Potorti`]

Riassunto veloce: servono nomi e indirizzi dei politici che contano
riguardo alla decisione sui brevetti software che i governi
prenderanno il 10 novembre (http://www.ffii.org.uk/council.html).

FFII li usa per mandare comunicati e per metter su una pagina che aiuta
chi vuole a mandare la propria lettera.

Qualcuno può per favore scrivere a:
 To: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson a RealMeasures.dyndns.org>
 Subject: Re: Help put Together Contact Information
 Cc: it-parl a ffii.org, phm a a2e.de, wynkoop a wynn.com

mandando le informazioni richieste al più presto?  Sappiamo che
certamente sono coinvolti i seguenti ministri:

 Lucio Stanca
 Ministro dell'Innovazione e delle Tecnologie
 Letizia Moratti
 Ministro dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca
 Antonio Marzano
 Ministro per le Attività Produttive
 Rocco Buttiglione
 Ministro per le Politiche comunitarie

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We have volunteers who want to do a serious outreach, to get people to email
Commissioners, Council people, and to cc their MEPs regarding the software
patent situation.

We need you to help by identifying the following information for your
country.  Please send your information to this list, me, the bxl list, or
Hartmut.  Also see the list of participants from a past "Competitiveness
Council" meeting, and see whether these seem to be at least some of the
right people.

Names of the government bodies ("ministries," "agencies") that appoint
people to:
1) the EU Commission
2) the EU Council

3) Names of several different people from each body who deal with software
patents, and their email addresses -- their appointed contact, plus some
others (above them, or in other committees related to technology or
industrial policy or "intellectual property").  You can tell what committees
they're on, too.

4) Names and contact info, particularly email, for MEPs

5) Also, specific contacts at your country's Patent Office, with emails.

6) If you know any other special contacts who are supposed to be serving the
public in this matter, provide those as well.

7) Plus if your national government has legislative committees related to
competition or technology or "intellectual property," names and emails for
those

The point is to send emails to Council people, with cc's to other agencies
and legislators, so they can see that all parties have been notified.

We will be able to set up a web page where people can click on their
country, compose an email (we don't believe in boilerplate, standardized
messages), and click send.  But moreso, to continually identify new groups
of people who would be concerned, in every country in Europe, whether
academia, technology or software, business, activist groups, etc., and get
them to forward the link.

This will serve to supplement more reasoned approaches by direct lobbying,
to demonstrate strong public concern.  Mostly we want to say that the EU
Parliament has spoken, has told the truth to the Commission's duplicity, and
it's time to quit playing games and face the truth about software.

Thank you

Seth Johnson


"Competitiveness Council" participants:

The following might help identify the right agencies, some of the right
people.  You can try googling, using the names of agencies these people come
from, and see whether they seem to be the right agencies -- and then who the
best contact is there:

Competitiveness Council

PARTICIPANTS

The Governments of the Member States and the European Commission were
represented as follows:

Belgium:
Ms Fientje MOERMAN
Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy, Foreign Trade and Scientific Policy

Denmark:
Mr Bendt BENDTSEN
Minister for Economic Affairs, Trade and Industry
Mr. Helge SANDER
Minister for Science, Technology and Development

Germany:
Mr Edelgard BULMAHN:
Federal Minister for Education and Research
Mr Georg Wilhelm ADAMOWITSCH
State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour

Greece:
Mr Apostolos TSOCHATZOPOULOS
Minister for Development
Mr Dimitrios DENIOSOS
General Secretary in charge of Research

Spain:
Mr Juan COSTA CLIMENT
Minister for Science and Technology
Mr Ramón DE MIGUEL Y EGEA
State Secretary for European Affairs

France:
Ms Nicole FONTAINE
Minister attached to the Minister for Economic Affairs, Finance and
Industry, with responsibility for Industry
Ms Claudie HAIGNERE
Minister attached to the Minister for Youth, Education and Research, with
responsibility for Research and New Technology

Ireland:
Mr Peter GUNNING
Deputy Permanent Representative

Italy:
Mr Rocco BUTTIGLIONE
Minister without portfolio, Minister for Community Policies
Mrs Letizia MORATTI
Minister for Education, the Universities and Research
Mr Mario VALDUCCI
State Secretary for Production Activities

Luxembourg:
Mr Henri GRETHEN
Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister for Transport
Ms Erna HENNICOT-SCHOEPGES
Minister for Culture, Higher Education and Research, Minister for Public
Works

Netherlands:
Mr Laurens Jan BRINKHORST
Minister for Economic Affairs
Ms M. J. van der HOEVEN
Minister for Education, Cultural Affairs and Science

Austria:
Mr Martin BARTENSTEIN
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour
Ms Elisabeth GEHRER
Federal Minister for Education, Science and Culture

Portugal:
Mr Carlos COSTA NEVES
State Secretary for European Affairs
Mr Franquelim ALVES
State Secretary to the Minister for Economic Affairs
Mr José PINTO PAIXÃO
State Secretary to the Minister for Science and Higher Education

Finland:
Mr Mauri PEKKARINEN
Minister for Trade and Industry

Sweden:
Mr Thomas ÖSTROS
Minister for Education
Mr Sven-Eric SÖDER
State Secretary to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Communications

United Kingdom:
Lord SAINSBURY of TURVILLE
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and Innovation

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Commission:

Mr Erkki LIIKANEN
Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society
Mr António VITORINO
Member
Mr Frits BOLKESTEIN
Commissioner for Justice and Internal Market
Mr Philippe BUSQUIN
Member

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The Governments of the Acceding States were represented as follows:

Czech Republic:
Mr Miroslav SOMOL
Deputy Minister, Ministry for Industry and Trade

Estonia:
Mr Meelis ATONEN
Minister for Economic Affairs and Communications
Mr Toivo MAIMETS
Minister for Education and Research

Cyprus:
Mr Sotiris SOTIRIOU
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce,
Industry and Tourism

Latvia:
Mr Eduard STIPRAIS
Deputy Permanent Representative

Lithuania:
Mr Nerijus EIDUKEVICIUS
Deputy Minister for Economy
Mr Rimantas VAITKUS
Deputy Minister for Education and Science

Hungary:
Mr Péter GOTTFRIED
Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Malta:
Mr Edwin VASSALLO
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs

Poland:
Ms Danuta HÜBNER
Secretary of the Committee for European Integration
Mr Krysztof KRYSTOWSKI
Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Economy, Labour and Social Affairs

Slovakia:
Mr Martin FRONC
Minister of Education

Slovenia:
Mr Matjaz LOGAR
State Secretary