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Have your say: Public consultation on the EPO's Strategic Plan 2023
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The EPO's Strategic Plan will outline our vision for the Office and its implementation will ensure that we continue to provide high-quality patent services that encourage innovation and contribute to growth. The EPO operates in a collaborative environment and thus we invite you to share your views on our future priorities.
Thank you to all contributors who provided their comments in the first round of our public consultation on the EPO's Strategic Plan. All views have been considered during the elaboration of the draft Strategic Plan, which you can download below.
If you would like to submit your views on this draft in the last consultation round, please download the template, comment in the fields provided, and email the completed document to consultationSP2023@epo.org
This consultation will run from 18 April – 10 May 2019.
Comments on the draft of our Strategic Plan received on or before 10 May 2019 will be reviewed and considered for the final proposal of the EPO Strategic Plan.
We may publish contributions from the stakeholders on our website provided we have received their permission.
The proposal elaborated following the consultation will be submitted to the Administrative Council for adoption in June 2019.
Subsequently, the approved version will be published on our website.
Contributions received in the first consultation round
The EPO was pleased to receive 47 contributions via the web consultation, 32 of which were authorised for publication by the contributor. These can be downloaded below.
This public
consultation invites comments from people or stakeholders who are interested in
the EPO's Strategic Plan.
Subject to your
permission, we may publish contributions on our website.
Contributions that infringe
the "Terms and conditions of use for the website" (and in particular Article 9
thereof) or the following conditions will not be considered for publication:
Contributions
must be in English, French or German
Contributions
must be related to the topic of the consultation of the the EPO's Strategic
Plan
Contributions
should not name individual staff members of the EPO
Contributions
should not contain personal attacks
Contributions
should not use offensive language, or contain racist, sexist or homophobic
remarks
Contributions
should refrain from mentioning pending applications or revealing confidential
information
Contributions
should not advertise for businesses or services
The publication of contributions on the EPO website does not constitute an endorsement of their contents by the European Patent Organisation.
Privacy notice
Privacy statement for the public consultation on the EPO's Strategic Plan
The European Patent
Office (EPO) is committed to protecting your privacy and the personal data you
provide as part of our consultation. We will process personal data that you provide
in accordance with our Data Protection Guidelines, which aim to ensure best
practice when handling users' personal data.
What personal data
will we collect?
If you
participate in our public consultation, we will collect your first name, last
name and email address.
Why will we collect this
data?
Within the framework of its activities under the European Patent Convention, the Organisation is committed to improving continuously its services to the users of the European patent system. Consulting the public on the future EPO strategy is part of this continuous effort and the personal data collected on this occasion will help the Organisation to better serve the community of users
Who will be responsible
for managing this data at the EPO?
The department responsible for managing this data will be External
Communication. You can contact them by emailing website@epo.org.
Does the
EPO have a designated Data Protection Officer?
We will not share your personal data with anyone outside the
EPO.
Will we
use the data for automated individual decision-making, including profiling?
No, we will not use the personal data you provide for
automated decision-making, including profiling.
How long
will we keep your data for?
We will delete or anonymise your personal data as soon as we no longer need
it to conduct the consultation, unless we are under a legal obligation to further
process or to store it.
What rights do you have?
Right of access: You have the right to ask
for confirmation of whether or not we are processing your personal data and, if
we are, to ask for access to that data and for information such as the purposes
of the processing and the categories of personal data concerned.
Right to correction: You have the right
to ask for the correction of inaccurate personal data.
Right to deletion: In certain
circumstances, you have the right to ask for your personal data to be deleted without
undue delay, for example if we no longer need it for the purposes for which we collected
it or it has been processed unlawfully.
Right to restriction of processing: In
certain circumstances, you have the right to ask that we restrict the processing
of your personal data, for example if you think that the personal data we are
processing about you is incorrect or the processing unlawful.
Right to object: In certain
circumstances, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal
data, in particular if we process it without a legitimate interest or use it
for marketing purposes.
To exercise any of your rights, all you have to do is write
to us at website@epo.org.
