Now not being a drug company, we could do certain things, we had certain flexibilities, that I respect that a pharmaceutical industry doesn't have.

The same is true of the pharmaceutical industry.

DE DONNEA (LDR). (FR) Mr President, pharmaceutical research is one of the most dynamic sectors of our Community.

Of course, dubious buybacks are not confined to the pharmaceutical industry.

MERZ (PPE), rapporteur. (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let me begin by asking this House, and especially those who have spoken, to be cateful.

This will especially encourage research and development of medicinal products fot diseases that cannot yet be treated or which are suffered only by marginal groups of the population.

And this is how the tamper proof drug industry was invented.

Early in my studies I was a guinea pig for a pharmaceutical industry.

So it's exactly the way we get health information and pharmaceutical information, and it just sounds perfect.

So we started to wonder, what would a drug company do at this point?

Now that same kind of software could destroy an oil refinery or a pharmaceutical factory or a semiconductor plant.

Unlike a drug company, we don't have a pipeline that we can deposit these molecules into.

The European Commission's proposal for a regulation plays Fathet Christmas to the pharmaceutical industry.

II. a regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 136 66 estabishing a common organization of the markets in the oils and fats sector (COM(90) 270 final Doc. C3292 90)

Research investment is currently extremely high and the pharmaceutical industry provides many thousands of quality jobs ?

Uses In the pharmaceutical industry, shikimic acid from the Chinese star anise ( Illicium verum ) is used as a base material for production of oseltamivir (Tamiflu).

Given the increasing time taken between the application for a patent and its granting, the proposed extension seems plausible, but it should be limited to 4 yeats so as not to undermine the actual

The Commission's proposal is a direct expression of the will of ESPIA, the European pharmaceutical industry's coordinating body, a fact which the Commission is at least honest enough to admit.

RIPA DI MEANA, Member of the Commission. (IT) Mr President, unlike the rapporteur, Mr Merz, who was able to escape and join us at least towards the end of the debate, Vice President Bangemann is still snowed in, so I shall be reading the remarks he would have made on behalf of the Commission.

The amend ments tabled by the Committee for Social Affairs aim at adding to the Commission's proposal regarding the social aspect concerning workers.

It was invented by Frenchman Michel Montignac (1944 2010), an international executive for the pharmaceutical industry, who, like his father, was overweight in his youth.

Now, with drug companies increasingly seeking to develop medications that target particular racial groups, the long taboo subject of racial genetics has reemerged.

If you work for a funding agency or pharmaceutical company, I challenge you to hold your employers to fund research that is ethically sound.

We train pharmaceutical technicians for the pharmacy industry, we train medical technicians for the medical industry, and we train chemical technicians for companies like Bayer and Calgon Carbon and Fisher Scientific and Exxon.

The proposal faces a lot of pressure from companies with activities in the sector, because, as reveled by Agência Pública in December 2013, it influences fundraising for the election campaigns of politicians involved with the special commission currently analyzing the draft.

What is still needed, however, is sufficient reward money perhaps 100 million from governments, NGOs, foundations and the pharmaceutical industry to stimulate serious investment.

In this way, we will remind those in the industry of a fundamental premise their most precious commodity is not a blockbuster drug, but the public s trust.

The company itself, Oxitec, we've been working for the last 10 years, very much on a sort of similar development pathway that you'd get with a pharmaceutical company.

Any actions decided upon if conditions are fulfilled would have to be financed then from the 1991 budget and the latitude afforded by that budget for actions of this nature.

To encourage the pharmaceutical industry to make essential drugs more widely available and affordable by all who need them in developing countries.

The biggest question that remains to be addressed is how to divide the cost among governments, the pharmaceutical industry, health systems, development agencies, and large charitable foundations.

The British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline recently announced that, together with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, it is developing an experimental vaccine for Ebola.

While the review has yet to come up with recommendations for financing the development of new drugs, it seems clear to me that it is well within the capacity of the pharmaceutical industry to contribute.

And somebody like Dr. Victoria Hale, who started the world's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, and whose first drug will be fighting visceral leishmaniasis, also known as black fever.

On the contrary, I am confronted with a picture of the European pharmaceutical industry that in no way accords with reality, an industry that would be threatened with rack and ruin if it had to compete on American and Japanese terms.

Because the overwhelming majority of medical and pharmaceutical research is directed toward products that affect people in affluent countries, it targets only part of the global burden of disease.

On the one hand I cannot help but admire the professionalism with which the pharmaceutical industty has deployed itself in this matter, but on the other, speaking as a politician trying to do the fight thing by the less well otchesttated interests of consumers and patients, 1 feel utterly disheartened.

As the pharmaceutical legislation lays down detailed restrictions on advertising and excludes certain types of information from these restrictions, any national rules prohibiting or unduly restricting such information could alter the balance introduced by the directive.

It is something which must have the fullest consideration, the widest debate, including a debate in this Chamber, when the many problems that face this proposal have been resolved.

JANSSEN VAN RAAY (PPE). (NL) Mr President, this is again a case of force majeure, because, as you have said, Mr Merz also has been stranded by the snow. I will therefore introduce the report on his behalf, and I hope that I can make up for the additional two minutes taken by Mr Rothley by knocking a couple of minutes off my own five minutes.

In 1996, during a major meningitis epidemic in northern Nigeria, the drug company Pfizer supplied doctors with the oral antibiotic Trovan, which was being tested against another drug, ceftriaxone.

Some government and foundation funded research addresses diseases that primarily affect poor people, but these efforts are not systematic and do not use the incentives that work well to drive pharmaceutical innovation elsewhere.

What I find really fascinating is that the pharmaceutical industry uses exactly the same kinds of tricks and devices, but slightly more sophisticated versions of them, in order to distort the evidence that they give to doctors and patients, and which we use to make vitally important decisions.

The district hosts the Viikki Campus with four of the faculties of the University of Helsinki (biosciences, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and agriculture and forestry) as well as other university units such as research centres, science library and teacher training school.

My answer must therefore be slightly different depending on the sector steel, shipbuilding and textiles or the food, pharmaceutical and electronics industries, which Mr Lalor gives as examples in his question.