Adam Moran adam@webarchitects.co.uk wrote:
I have a chance of meeting Diana Wallis MEP ( along with other SMEs ); she sits on the JURI.
I've just checked the FFII site [1] and have noticed that the JURI are to vote later this month, but wonder what this vote is about ?
I think you intended to include a link, probably this one: http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatFuturEn which mentions a JURI vote on either the 6th or the 20th(!?).
A complete guess, but perhaps they'll vote on whether to support Rocard's amendments.
Malcohol.
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On June 20th, JURI meets to decide what amendments will be voted on by the parliament. July 6th is the parliament vote.
(the JURI meeting was previously expected to happen on June 6th, so some out of date pages may give that wrong date)
The main point of the JURI meeting is to delete duplicate amendments, and merge near-duplicate amendments to produce a more understandable voting list for the parliament. Example: There's been 260 amendments tabled, but the FFII's 22 amendments were tabled 5 times, so 4 copies of each will be deleted by JURI.
So the outcome of the JURI meeting is usually non-surprising, but there is a lack of knowledge about what is *possible* in the JURI meeting. Because this directive has caused an number of things to happen in the legislative process that have never happened before, there is no precedent for what *can* happen with directives like the swpats directive.
Some say JURI are allowed to produce a compromise set of amendments, which would involve merging currently tabled amendments, with possible modification to their content.