
Call comes ahead of planned EU pharmaceutical strategy
Representatives of European drug companies have called on the EU to streamline its regulation of the sector, ahead of the European Commission’s much-anticipated proposal for a pharmaceutical strategy in the coming weeks.
“EU-level legislation should aim to simplify and streamline processes” around drug development and approval, authors including a regulatory strategy director at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations wrote in a blog post published by Efpia on 23 February.