Shortage of medicines - how to address an emerging problem
Own-initiative report on shortages of medicines. Amendments note that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the EU's over-reliance on a narrow set of countries for imports of active pharmaceutical ingredients and chemical raw materials, call for stepping up medicine production capacity in Europe, and debate intellectual property rights, the TRIPS agreement, free trade agreements and the WTO in relation to access to and availability of medicines.
Procedure timeline
- Committee amendments tabled18 May 2020 – 8 Jun 2020
- Plenary vote — Passed17 Sep 2020 · On the resolution (the text as a whole)
- Procedure completed
Plenary votes
4 roll-call votesIn plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →
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- 16 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totalsOn paragraph 60Official label: § 60 · what was voted ↗376 for256 against58 abstentions15 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 16 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totalsOn paragraph 93 (part 1 of a split vote)Official label: § 93/1 · what was voted ↗649 for28 against13 abstentions15 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 16 Sep 2020Passedoutcome from totalsOn paragraph 93 (part 2 of a split vote)Official label: § 93/2 · what was voted ↗395 for286 against9 abstentions15 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 17 Sep 2020Main votePassedoutcome from totalsOn the resolution (the text as a whole)Official label: Résolution · what was voted ↗663 for23 against10 abstentions9 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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The amendments, in full text
1,068 amendmentsEvery amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.