Health
Várhelyi not ‘deaf or blind’ to pharma's concerns over Wastewater Directive
Health commissioner says he will do ‘everything in his power’ to correct unfair burden embedded in the legislation.
Speaking at the opening of a new EGIS plant, in Kőbánya, Budapest, the EU’s Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi said that he hoped that the Biotech Act would be published before the end of the year and equally that he thought negotiations on the Pharmaceutical Package should also be completed in the coming weeks.
The pharma plant, which represents an investment of €78 million, is a welcome addition to API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) production in the EU, where

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