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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9173

13 April 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/medicines
Generic manufacturers want to put brakes on price falls

Brussels, 12/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Generic medicines Association (EGA) organised a seminar on the pricing and reimbursement systems for medicines in Europe in Brussels on 6 April. At this seminar, Professor Steven Simoens of the Catholic University of Louvain presented a comparative study on the generic medicines markets in Europe. Entitled “Sustaining Generic Medicines Markets in Europe”, the study demonstrates that, by substituting a generic medicine for the...

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: Our offices will be closed from 13 to 17 April inclusive for the Easter holidays. Newsletter EUROPE 9174 will be dated Wednesday 19 April 2006.
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(EU) EU/FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Coreper is pleased with final compromise
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission ends procedure against Repsol on Spanish service station market
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: Ambitious targets are set for recruiting women to high level posts
(EU) EU/2006 BUDGET: EUR 2.4 bn cut in Member States' contributions
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission gives go-ahead to acquisition of Guidant by Boston Scientific and Abbott
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(EU) EP/SECOND APRIL PLENARY: Twenty years on from Chernobyl, Accession of Bulgaria and Romania, funding for trans-European transport networks, discharge of 2004 Budget, road safety, multilingualism, state aid for innovation, and Cooperation with Latin America
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(EU) EU/EESC/APRIL PLENARY: Managing industrial change and EU's communications policy at top of agenda - Vladimir Spidla to attend plenary
(EU) EU/SOCIAL AFFAIRS/SMES: Graz SME Summit stresses importance of effective European social model to SMEs
(EU) EU/AIR TRANSPORT: European Transport Workers Federation does not want revision of ground handling directive
(EU) EU/UNESCO/WATER: SWITCH project wants to play part in forging “city of future”
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(EU) EU/JHA/JUSTICE: European lawyers still waiting for European Criminal Law Ombudsman
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(EU) EU/MEDICINES: Generic manufacturers want to put brakes on price falls
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Debate with Philippe Busquin on 7th RDFP and relaunch of Lisbon Strategy
(EU) EU/EIB: 40 million euro loan in Serbia
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