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". – Mr President, exceptionally I will speak in English because at the end of my speech I am going to ask Mr Busquin a question which I want to be sure he understands and I expect a very clear answer.
First, I want to say that this programme is very laudable and commendable. It is a highly-needed initiative which deserves a lot of attention and support. To enhance the impact of the European contribution, we must improve what is already being done, and this must entail more coordination and consultation. Material and non-material investment in the control of the major communicable diseases in poverty-ridden countries must be increased and, most importantly, new tools to prevent and combat the three diseases are needed here and now. Affordable, effective, accessible and safe vaccines, drugs and microbicides are urgently required to prevent or ameliorate malaria, HIV and tuberculosis.
It is imperative to ensure that the beneficiaries, the end-users of these new tools, are fully involved in their clinical evaluation and application. It is therefore heartening that the Commission's proposal for a European Developing Countries Clinical Trials programme (EDCTP) addresses the important issue of human capacity development in the societies most affected by the three diseases. It is, however, very disheartening that the Commission, after two years, has still not provided any substantial information about the Member States' common activity, the very activity which forms the basis for mobilising Article 169.
As far as I know, the European Economic Interest Group is currently a structure which lacks defined programmatic content. So here is my question: can the Commission provide me with any examples of how Member States have so far collaborated and jointly implemented activities within the EDCTP concept? Have any of the Member States so far committed – and I mean committed and not identified, because I know that all the Member States have identified programmes – to any of the identified programmes so far? We need to have credible examples of Member States' joint achievements in order to avoid the sustainability of the initiative coming into question, and a proposal being seen as merely wishful thinking."@en1
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