Shorouk Express When most of us were sleeping, the European Parliament and Council were hammering out a deal on the Pharma Package – a combined 400 articles in a regulation and directive. After eleven hours of intense negotiations on the fifth floor (5G3, to be precise), the deal was delivered.The last eleven hours are the…
Shorouk Express The Commission presented its Environmental Omnibus package today (10 December), aimed at simplifying EU environmental legislation across several areas, including permitting, emissions standards, hazardous-waste treatment, extended producer responsibility (EPR), and the use of geospatial data.One area where changes had been anticipated was the EPR obligations for the cosmetic and pharmaceutical sectors under the…
Shorouk Express “The pharmaceutical industry in the U.K. has now gained planning security. Such an agreement is still pending for the EU. …The risk of customs duties remains high and uncertainty persists,” he said in a statement. Trump has repeatedly blamed European pharmaceutical companies for higher U.S. drug prices, threatened a 100 percent tariff on…
