AESGP Backs OTC Devices As EU Advances Legislation
OTC24-07-15p1_OTC15/11/2005 p1&24 21/07/2015 12:26 Page 1 24 July 2015 COMPANY NEWS 2 AESGP backsOTC devices Consumer Healthcare unit 2 gets anew home at Sanofi Ciplatospin-offOTC operations 2 as EU advances legislation Future of P&G’s OTCbrands 3 almostsecureascullends EU to rule on Mylan/Perrigo 3 elf-caremedical devices in Europe are nasal sprays and throat lozenges, in the high- Sonce morefacing the threat of being est-risk category and argued that this proposal J&Jready for consumer opportunities 4 classified in the highest risk category –class was“neither appropriatenor justified by the ChinaNepstar’schairman 6 III–under fresh proposals by the European risk profile” of these products (OTC bulletin, to acquire drugstorechain Council of European Union (EU) Health 18 December 2012, page 10). Vemediagrows Belgianportfolio 6 Ministers. But the Association of the Euro- Six months later,the parliament’senviron- WBAonthe look out for acquisitions 7 pean Self-Medication Industry,the AESGP, ment, public health and food safety (ENVI) Manufacturingshake-up 8 said it would continue to resist such amove. committee proposed amassive 762 amend- behind RB’srise The Council had recently expanded the scope ments to the legislation, on top of the 145 that Fidiagetsmarketing rights 9 of Rule 21 in AnnexVII of the proposed medi- had been proposed by the legislation’sthen to Halykooportfolio in Italy cal-device legislation, the AESGP pointed out, rapporteur Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (OTC bul- Deliveriesliftsales at Probi 9 despite the European Parliament voting last letin,31May 2013, page 14). year to remove the rule (OTC bulletin,25April The European Parliament backed anumber GENERAL NEWS 10 2014, page 13).
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