Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-30-Speech-4-098"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000330.4.4-098"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-30-Speech-4-0992
lpv:speaker	lp:Nuala Ahern2
lpv:spoken text	"We have had a lengthy debate in this house on the patenting of biotechnology. I myself, together with other Green deputies, warned of the consequences at the time. Specifically, I warned that to make patents on human genes or part of human genes would jeopardise the freedom of research and impede the progress of medicine. Genetic information can only be discovered, it cannot be invented. Commercialisation of the knowledge of the human genome, which has been accumulated by research in many parts of the world, would jeopardise the medical application of this important scientific knowledge about the human body and its functions. The human genome and its sequences should not be patentable. The granting of this patent by the European Patent Office is deeply shocking and must be revoked."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Green Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Ahern (Verts/ALE ),"1 "in writing."1

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