Plans For Mandatory EU Joint Clinical Assessments Watered Down

Pharma industry representatives are calling for the proposals on health technology assessment cooperation to include more flexibility on uncertainty in evidence supporting orphans and advanced therapies.

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Drug companies could face duplication of work and added financial and administrative burden if proposals from the Council of the EU are adopted to weaken draft legislation on EU-level mandatory clinical assessments, warns EUCOPE, the European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs.

Although some matters are yet to be agreed upon, the Portuguese presidency of the Council of the EU said this...

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