Dear Mr. President-elect, We are writing to express our astonishment and concern regarding your decision to move the competence for medicinal products and health technologies from the Commissioner in charge of Health to the Commissioner in charge of internal market…
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Question and debate in EP (16-9-2014) on high prices of life-saving medicines
Oral Question posed by French MEP Michelle Rivasi (Greens) Access to medicines has repeatedly made the headlines in many EU countries over the past 3 months (in France, the UK, Spain, Greece, etc.). The reason for that is the price…
Gobal Broadcast Treaty and public interest
Statement to WIPO SCCR 28 on Broadcasting Treaty by TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue Broadcasting Treaty: Collateral damage to public access Consumers and users around the world do not want new layers of complications, barriers and costs added to…
TRIPS, the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency´s clinical trial transparency policy
Nothing in international intellectual property law constitutes a serious barrier to the publication of clinical trial data for the sake of public health. In his letter to the European Ombudsman dated 22 May 2014, the Director of the European…
Human rights vs. patent monopolies on medicines in Greece
Human rights VS Patent Monopolies on medicines Written by Mr. Panayotis Kouroublis, Greek MP, SYRIZA parliamentary representative Published at http://www.koutipandoras.gr/article/113023/anthropina-dikaiomata-enantion-pneymatikon-dikaiomaton on 3 May 2014 “Diseases such as cancer are considered urgent only when the patient is in the final…
EP Elections pledge: Europe for access to medicines and public health care
10 commitments for candidates to the European Parliament 1. Defend universal access to public health care systems without discrimination for reasons of economic capacity, employment status or nationality. Support the principle of the integration of health aspects into all European…
Copyright meets broadcasting in Geneva
The 27th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization´s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 28 April to 2 May in Geneva. The Committee assessed the proposal for a Broadcasting Treaty. This initiative…
Copyright Treaty for Blind moves forward with EU signature and India´s ratification
On 30 April 2014, the Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the European Union, represented by the Ambassador of Greece to the UN in Geneva, Alexandros Alexandris signed the Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works…
UFOS IN GENEVA
TACD oral statement to WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Before commenting the Broadcast Treaty I would like to congratulate the European Union and India for their signature tomorrow of the Marrakesh Treaty…
A victory for medicine trial transparency but there is still a long way to go
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday the adoption of the new Clinical Trials Regulation, which has removed the legal framework on commercial confidentiality that previously allowed pharma not to publish its data. With the new Regulation information…