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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our objective is to protect consumers, so to do this, we must avoid making mistakes due to excessive rigour, or supposed rigour. For example, I think that it is a mistake to entrust the inspection of patents to customs: they do not have this expertise, they do not have the necessary professionalism, and if this task were assigned to customs, it would end up disrupting the market to the detriment of consumers. The same goes for generic medicines: these are not counterfeit medicines, but medicines that use only the molecule of the product. Since they do not contain excipients, they cost much less than other medicines. If we do not clarify the difference between a speciality medicine and a generic medicine, we risk creating barriers and obstacles to generic medicines to the detriment and prejudice of consumers. For this reason, I think that the position we have adopted as a group, calling for the relevant legislation to be amended, is absolutely reasonable and defensible."@en1
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