EFPIA and EuropaBio welcome High-Level Pharmaceutical Forum outcomes

12 October 2008

The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations and the EuropaBio have both welcomed the outcomes of the European Commission's High-Level Pharmaceutical Forum, which gathered all health care stakeholders, apart from parallel traders, to discuss information to patients and other key issues.

However, the EFPIA, which represents research-based drugmakers, said it wants more work on "some important measures [that] have yet to be implemented, such as the non-extra-territoriality of member state price controls," which has an impact on the re-importation of medicines.

Progress on "objective and unbiased" information to patients by drugmakers

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