06/03/2018

[USF] Letter from USF President to ALL 38 Delegations of the EPO Administrative Council, to Mr Campinos and to the EU Commission

Letter from USF President to ALL 38 EPO Delegations

  • The original USF letter .pdf version in English is available here.

  • The original USF letter .pdf version in French is available here.

 

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Shocking events around social policy and rule of law issues at the EPO

[extract from the USF LETTER to ALL 38 EPO DELEGATIONS]

USF is the largest Federation of unions in the European international public service and has been following with great concern the situation at the European Patent Office (EPO) which deserves to be labelled as extreme. A number of shocking events around social policy and rule of law issues at the EPO were reported upon in various media over the last few years. These reports also reveal fundamental flaws in the institutional setup of the EPO taken in combination with its assigned jurisdiction, the ILOAT.