A big thank you for your support!

Dear SUEPO members,
Dear Colleagues,

On 30 June 2026, 250 colleagues and pensioners braved the hot and wet weather to demonstrate in front of the Isar building. 190 additional attendees connected to the live feed put in place. Overall, the demonstration had a total of 440 attendees. We also hear of increasing registrations for the “rolling strikes” running until autumn. Thank you for your support!

SUEPO had called to demonstrate against the new salary adjustment procedure intensifying the erosion of EPO salaries, pensions and other benefits without any financial basis. In addition, the procedure foresees no end in the erosion and contains a review clause allowing the Council to further worsen the pace of erosion in three years’ time. The presence of EPO pensioners in the demonstration was all the more justified that they had also paid contributions during their whole career for a pension to be indexed on increases in costs of living and now find themselves with a plummeting pension.

In preparation of the Administrative Council meeting of 30 June and 1 July, the Union Syndicale Fédérale addressed Mr Campinos by letter of 26 June on the industrial actions and the Central Staff Committee (CSC) addressed the Council by letter of 23 June to submit input on a future strategic plan for the European Patent Organisation.

When closing the demonstration, SUEPO reminded that the most powerful action every one of us can take is to join the organised strikes and to contribute to the work-to-rule action which is having an impressive impact on the drop in number of products/grants and hence the income of the national patent offices of the delegates.

The SUEPO Munich Action Plan continues with Work-To-Rule and “rolling strikes” until at least 16 October while the re-election of Mr Campinos for a third mandate is under discussion in the Council.

Read more in this paper.

SUEPO Munich