ORGANISATION BRINGING RESEARCH INTO CLINICAL APPLICATIONS GETS EU LEGAL STATUS
November 3rd, 2013
A PHARMA innovation consortium has become the first medical science-based institution to be granted a special European Union (EU) legal status, exempting it from paying VAT and excise duties across the EU.The European Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure in Medicine (EATRIS), an umbrella group of academic institutes based in Amsterdam, became a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) on Tuesday (12 November).This status also enables the consortium to adopt its own procurement procedures, according to a spokesman for the European ...
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