The Committee on Legal Affairs adopted the report drafted by Klaus-Heiner LEHNE (EPP, DE) recommending the European Parliament to give its consent to the proposal for a Council decision authorising enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection, without prejudice to which are the participating Member States.
The Council is called upon to adopt a decision pursuant to Article 333(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union stipulating that, when it comes to the proposal for a Council Regulation implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection with respect to language arrangements for the European intellectual property rights pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 118 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, it will act under the ordinary legislative procedure.