The EMA looks to the future by posting its five key priorities to address in the coming five years, which includes the need to recruit expertise in ‘novel manufacturing technologies’.
The value generated by the manufacture of medicines has doubled since 2000, with one of the smallest countries in Europe responsible for a significant proportion of the total figure.
Patients in Southern and Eastern Europe wait on average five times as long for the same treatments as patients in Northern and Western Europe, an EFPIA report finds.
The introduction of the SPC manufacturing waiver will generate billions in export sales and create a number of jobs across the EU, suggests Medicines for Europe.
European generics industry faces opposition while pushing for the SPC manufacturing waiver to be altered so it allows for the production of drugs under patent for non-EU countries.