EU Parliament Report Calls For Nine-Year Data Protection Period

Fears that the European Commission’s proposed overhaul of the pharmaceutical legislation will have a tortuous journey through the EU legislative machinery appear well grounded after the two rapporteurs for the European Parliament’s environment and public health committee (ENVI) took very different positions in their draft reports on the revision package.

Pernille Weiss of the center-right European People’s Party, who is rapporteur for the draft directive – part of the commission’s revision package, alongside a draft regulation – has criticized the...