See
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/06/group_backs_ec/
Does anyone know the "European Committee for Interoperable Systems"? Googling doesn't show that much, but they seemed to be active in the early 1990s, defending the right to reverse engineer in order to produce interoperable software (and this right is included in the EU's directive).
Jeroen Dekkers