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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

Recognizing further the need for dissemination of research knowledge, technologies and expertise in the field of biotechnology, in particular in the areas of agriculture, pharmaceuticals and health care, that could benefit mankind,

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

And yet, 64 percent of the world's GDP today is in that intangible industry we call service, the service industry, the industry I'm in.

Tom works in the film industry.

After the war he went into the film industry.

In partnership with the World Bank, the WHO, UNICEF, and the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, it has used innovative financing tools to raise funds for global immunization programs, while working with industry to lower the prices of vaccines.

And the porn industry is the fastest growing industry in America 15 billion annually.

The US auto industry is up in arms.

And it's used by aerospace and automotive.

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If this proves to be the case, we are of course prepared to give positive consideration to humanitarian aid within the limits of our possibilities.

Secret of the trade.