Topic: European Commission

EU sets out tough rules on medicines information

LONDON (Reuters) - Europe will strictly limit the amount of information that drugmakers can supply to the public on prescription-only medicines and retain a ban on advertising under proposed rules set out on Tuesday.The latest proposals from the European Commission amend those ...

Are patent deals slowing cheaper drugs?

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU regulator said on Monday it was pressing pharmaceutical companies for more information on their patent deals with generic companies to make sure there is no delay in cheaper drugs coming to market.The move is the latest in ...
The UK's Food Standards Agency has finally declared milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring safe to eat.. But the statement clashes with the European Commission's (EC) position on food products from cloned animals - that they should be banned ...

EU exec proposes ban on animal cloning for food

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union announced plans on Tuesday to temporarily ban the use of animal cloning for food production, while allowing imports of food derived from the offspring of clones from the United States and elsewhere.The report from the European ...
TEVA) announced today that the Company received approval from the European Commission to proceed with its acquisition of ratiopharm. Teva was represented before the European Commission by Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.. Teva's branded businesses focus on neurological, respiratory and women's health ...

AstraZeneca loses generic drug case versus EU

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A European Union court backed an EU antitrust decision against Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca Thursday, lending weight to a regulatory crackdown on firms blocking cheaper drugs coming to market.Antitrust lawyers said the ruling set a firm legal precedent for the ...

Fury as Brussels authorises GM potatoes

The European Commission on Tuesday approved the cultivation of genetically-modified potatoes, prompting an angry response from environmental campaign groups and two EU member governments.The first approval of genetically modified foods in Europe for 12 years was criticised by Greenpeace and Friends of ...
The European Commission has contacted Pfizer (PFE) as part of its antitrust investigation into patent settlements between pharmaceutical firms and generic drugmakers, according to various press accounts. Pfizer acknowledged it was among the companies involved in the probe and said it was ...

Industry prepares to go digital in 2009

The article highlights the views of senior public relations agency figures regarding digital offerings for the British pharmaceutical industry in 2009. The guidance put out by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) means that the threshold at which the ...

Novartis subsidiary Sandoz raided by EU

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said on Wednesday that offices of its subsidiary Sandoz were raided by European Commission investigators probing suspected competition violations. "The French offices of Sandoz were raided" on Tuesday, a Novartis spokesman said, without giving further details.He added that ...
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