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Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products. Recast

2023/0130(COD)·9th term·JURI·COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)·In progressAwaiting Council's 1st reading position
Subjects: Research specific areas · Industrial property, European patent, Community patent, design and pattern · Health legislation and policy
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): WÖLKEN Tiemo (S&D)
Summary

This dossier is a recast of the rules on supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products. The amendments address protection conditions tied to a basic patent, avoiding overprotection through one certificate per product, the maximum duration of protection and paediatric extension, a centralised application examined under an Office with national examiners, fees, third-party observations, Boards of Appeal, generics and biosimilars, and disclosure of public financial support for research.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    14 Nov 2023
  2. Plenary vote — Adopted
    28 Feb 2024 · On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
  3. In progress — not yet concluded
108
Amendments
distinct, in window
3
Members
tabled at least one
1
Committee(s)
14 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 ↗
    526 for23 against70 abstentions86 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

PE756.105 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

3 Members · by amendment count
1🇷🇴
Daniel BUDA
European People's Party (EPP) · Romania
102(102 solo)
2🇪🇸
Javier ZARZALEJOS
European People's Party (EPP) · Spain
76(76 solo)
3🇫🇷
Marie TOUSSAINT
Greens / EFA · France
38(38 solo)

The amendments, in full text

216 amendments

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

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