Press releases

Today the European Commission published its Critical Medicines Act which is set to tackle shortages by addressing supply chain vulnerabilities, including through diversification and international partnerships. BEUC considers the proposal goes in the right direction tackling shortages but should go further to ensure consumers pay a fair price.

The report published today by Enrico Letta from the Jacques Delors Institute is a welcome effort to remove barriers that prevent the Single Market from delivering its potential.

The EU Parliament has proposed some positive changes to the pharma package, the EU’s largest reform of pharmaceutical legislation in twenty years, but these are unlikely to go far enough to significantly improve people’s access to medicines.

The European Health Data Space agreed today by the EU institutions is a step forward to improve healthcare. However, the institutions should have given more choice to people to decide for themselves who their data is shared with, and for what purpose.