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FFPE was clearly free to sign the agreement. It is up to its members to decide whether it acted in their interest or not. However, they clearly cannot claim to act in the interest of the EPO staff in general given their number.
Who has some (more) questions to answer is the President of the EPO. The Admin Council may ask him to explain why he signed an agreement with an organisation that represents only a negligeable minority of the staff and does not seem to fulfill the conditions of the agreement itself (only the staff of the Hague are entitled to adhere while the others may only be allowed on the basis of a discretionary decision of the committee under art.20 of the statute, no regular elections seem to be hold from their info page).
Maybe to clarify this issue some informed reader should finally tell us:
1)how many members the FFPE has;
2) how many of them are not dutch nationals;
3) how many of them are not based in Den Haag;
4) when were the last elections hold.
A more critical reader
Mar 4, 2016, 10:17:52 AM