Press Release: Commission takes further steps to ensure access to medicines for poor countries

The European Commission on 21 April 2004 placed seven anti-retroviral drugs on the list of medicines placed under European Union protection against trade diversion. The move is intended to enable pharmaceutical producers to significantly increase supplies of medicines at lower, so-called 'tiered' prices, to 76 developing countries, while keeping higher prices for the same items in the EU. The application was filed by GlaxoSmithKline in February 2004.

European Commission: DG Trade: Documents and Publications: Document search http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/cfm/doclib_search.cfm#more-criteria

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/csc/med.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/csc/med.htm

European Commission: DG Trade: Trade Issues: Harnessing Globalisation: Access to essential medicines http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/issues/global/medecine/index_en.htm

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