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Unitary supplementary certificate for medicinal products

2023/0127(COD)·9th term·JURI·COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)·In progressAwaiting Council's 1st reading position
Subjects: Intellectual property, copyright · Industrial property, European patent, Community patent, design and pattern
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): WÖLKEN Tiemo (S&D)
Summary

This dossier concerns a unitary supplementary certificate (SPC) for medicinal products. Amendments address the duration and scope of protection relative to the basic patent, avoiding overprotection, biological medicinal products and INNs, the timely entry of generics and biosimilars, a centralised examination procedure by the Office with national patent offices, fees, appeals and the Unified Patent Court, and disclosure of direct financial support for research.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    13 Nov 2023
  2. Plenary vote — Adopted
    28 Feb 2024 · On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
  3. In progress — not yet concluded
168
Amendments
distinct, in window
5
Members
tabled at least one
1
Committee(s)
13 Nov 2023
Dates

Plenary votes

1 roll-call votes

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  1. 28 Feb 2024Main voteAdopted
    On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
    Official label: Proposition de la Commission · what was voted ↗
    518 for29 against70 abstentions88 did not vote
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Based on 56 past main roll-call votes on JURI-responsible procedures, Jul 2019 → 2026-07-04.

EPPusually FOR87% FOR over 8,972 votes
S&Dusually FOR90% FOR over 7,003 votes
Renewusually FOR90% FOR over 4,901 votes
Greens/EFAusually FOR78% FOR over 3,519 votes
ECRusually FOR51% FOR over 3,419 votes
The Leftusually FOR64% FOR over 1,903 votes
Patriotsusually AGAINST34% FOR over 736 votes
IDusually AGAINST50% FOR over 2,611 votes
ESNusually AGAINST31% FOR over 237 votes
Non-attachedusually FOR64% FOR over 1,843 votes

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Official amendment documents

PE756.103 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

5 Members · by amendment count
1🇪🇸
Javier ZARZALEJOS
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
124(124 solo)
2🇷🇴
Daniel BUDA
European People's Party (EPP) · Romania
98(98 solo)
3🇫🇷
Marie TOUSSAINT
Greens / EFA · France
50(50 solo)
4🇮🇹
Raffaele STANCANELLI
Patriots for Europe · Italy
34(34 solo)
5🇪🇸
Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
30(30 solo)

The amendments, in full text

336 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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