GENERIC MEDICINES – EAST
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLACCESS to affordable medical care in the eastern European countries preparing to join the European Union next May is being jeopardised by the European Commission's insistence on pushing through - before their accession - EU legislation delaying the availability of competitively priced generic medicines, a key pharmaceutical industry figure has claimed. Greg Perry, director general of the European Generic Medicines Association, has said: "It must be recognised that eastern Europe has a major health gap with the current EU-15 (existing Member ...
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