The Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU is going for broke on the draft regulation on health technology assessments (see EUROPE B12679A11). Despite the continuing blockages, Lisbon will seek, on Wednesday 24 March, a negotiating mandate from the Member States’ Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper).
The draft regulation on health technology assessment, known as ‘HTA’, aims to pool the clinical assessments carried out by the Member States to determine the added...