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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8474

3 June 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health
Council finalises assessment of legislative package on medicines for human use by protecting clinical data for ten years - Centralised procedure to be restricted to new medicines for cancer, AIDS, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases

Luxembourg, 02/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - After a debate in which acceding countries expressed firm opposition to protection of clinical data for any longer than six years, the President of the Council, Greek Health Minister Kostas Stefanis, noted political agreement at the Council on the draft regulation and directive concerning authorisation of the sale of medicines for human use, adding that the two common positions would be formally adopted under the Greek Presidency at the same time as...

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