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Mr President, that discussion has already been held in a different context when I commented on Parliament's amendments, but I would like to say briefly that the Commission welcomes Parliament's support for the centralised procedure. We now we propose that it be applied for all active substances and Parliament supported this.
Now the Council has reached a political agreement which goes in the same direction, but in a rather narrower fashion. It will limit the application of the centralised procedure to four illnesses, but within the legislation, in the Council's opinion, there should be a particular Article which would allow for the enlargement of the scope of the centralised procedure.
Regarding information for patients in that area, discussions continue but it seems to be that the majority in the Council and the majority in Parliament are not so far from each other. This is not the same as the Commission's position, but I respect the outcome of the legislative procedure.
The Commission has never proposed direct-to-consumer advertising. It only supports the provision of controlled information for patients, patient groups and so on. Anyone who today has access to the Internet sees a massive amount of direct spam advertising on medicines, which is growing every day. It would be better for consumers if they knew which websites were trustworthy, where there is scrutiny by the authorities or whether they could trust the quality of the information. On that issue, it seems that Parliament and Council are on the same wavelength in being very prudent on the issue of information for patients. We will of course return to this in second reading."@en1
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