The competent Working Party on Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices of the Council of the European Union discussed on Friday 28 May a draft EU Council conclusion on access to medicines and medical devices in the EU.
“The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted, inter alia, the problems of access and availability, exacerbating the growing problem of shortages for medicines, especially off-patent medicinal products, and medical devices”, the text states in its introduction.
A recent report by...