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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9793

29 November 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/medicines
Kroes wants to clean up pharmaceutical industry - Commission launches public consultation exercise

Brussels, 28/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - While refraining from seeking to call into question the intellectual property rights that the pharmaceutical industry needs to ensure a return on investment and finance research and innovation, on Friday 28 November European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes set out at considerable length practices used by companies to delay the entry of generic medicines on the markets of European Union member states. At a hearing in Brussels, the commissioner...

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