EASTERN EUROPE DATA
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE HEALTH ministers of the 10 governments in eastern and southern Europe due to join the European Union next May have joined together to demand changes to legislation now under discussion that would extend the protection of patent protection for new medicines to 10 years across the EU. Gathering at an informal EU health council in Milan, Italy, the would-be member states complained about being "marginalised" from the ongoing negotiations to update directive 2001/83/EC on the community code relating to medicinal products for human use. The ...
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