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"Madam President, I would also like to thank the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs for an excellent piece of work. We all know that the pharmaceutical industry is very big business. It is said to be the third largest in the world, after drugs and weapons. It therefore offers rich pickings, and some people will always try to grab these by illegal means. We will never be able to prevent the production of fake medicines. Our task is to minimise the risk that they will get on to the European market and that they will reach our citizens. We know that when someone sells a counterfeit watch, that is an infringement of intellectual property protection, but when a counterfeit medicine is sold, it is a direct health risk.
It is this fact which has led us and is leading us to support this report. We know we cannot solve everything, and we know there is a problem, for example, over the fact that packaging is often produced separately from medicines, and that counterfeit medicines in genuine packaging are in circulation around the world. However, this is a step in the right direction and an attempt at the maximum possible protection."@en1
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