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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9082

6 December 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 53
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/medicine
Compulsory licensing scheme near

Brussels, 05/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - In Brussels on 1 December, World AIDS Day, the European Parliament approved by 543 votes to 21, with 35 abstentions, the report from Belgian Liberal, Johan Van Hecke, on the proposal for a regulation putting in place a system of compulsory licences for the export of generic medicines to poor countries in order to improve disadvantaged people's access to available treatment for AIDS and other serious illnesses . The amendments adopted bring legal...

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