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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I am a licensed veterinarian.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tom has a friend whose mother is a veterinarian.

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

Mary wants to become a vet because she loves animals.

A lot more than you'd get in a hospital or a vet's.

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.

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.

I fear that the proposal infringes Article 63 of the European Patents Convention, which sets a binding duration of 20 years for European patents.

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

She's a veterinarian, so she's seen lots of ultrasounds.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Already adopted by Patliament's economic committee, this amendment aims at placing the European pharmaceutical industry on a par with other industrial sectors, like the mechanical, electrical and electronic sectors as well as taking into account the specific problems of research and marketing of a product as a medication.

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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.

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.

I would like to make the following comments on amendments Nos 17 and 23 on transitional arrange ments. Hete it is a question to striking a balance between the interests of the pharmaceutical industry carrying out the research and thoseof the producéis of generics.

Stacey Addison is from Portland, USA where she worked as a veterinarian for ten years.

This feed yard was going to tear down their whole veterinary facility all they needed to do was move the flag.