{"id":5855,"date":"2018-02-28T21:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:07:23","slug":"social-policy-and-rule-of-law-issues-at-epo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/social-policy-and-rule-of-law-issues-at-epo\/","title":{"rendered":"Social policy and rule of law issues at EPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_432d3f53\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Shocking events around social policy and rule of law issues at the EPO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[extract from the USF letter to all 38 <a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/?s=EPO&amp;lang=en\">EPO<\/a> Delegations, the EU Commission, EPO President-elec MR Campinos]<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/scan_loescbe_2018-02-28-16-33-21.pdf\">Letter from USF President to ALL 38 EPO Delegations<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_large\"><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium with_line width_50 thick_3 style_solid color_primary align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div 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