European Parliament and Committee on Legal Affairs 29 October 1992, LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION embodying the opinion of the European Parliament on the Commission proposal to the Council for a directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (Cooperation procedure: first reading)

23 . 11.92 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 305/ 173 Thursday, 29 October 1992 TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES TEXT AMENDED BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (b) the words 'self-replicable matter ', where used, shall be interpreted to comprise also matterpossessing the genetic material necessary to direct its own replica­ tion via a host organism or in any