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"Madam President, I would like to support the submitted bill, which amends and adds to the directive from 2001 on preventing counterfeit medicines from entering the legal supply chain.
The dramatically worsening situation on the market, where the quantity of fake medicines in legal circulation has recently risen sharply, requires a thorough tightening up of rules on monitoring, as well as sanctions. The situation is all the more serious for the fact that counterfeiters, in a scramble to maximise profits, are progressing from fake dietary supplements to fake lifesaving medicines used for treating infections, heart disorders and cancer. Such counterfeits can have fatal consequences for patients, who may be quite unaware that they have become victims of fraud, and that the tablets they are using are only imitation medicines and will not cure them at all.
It is therefore our duty, ladies and gentlemen, to stand up to this dirty business affecting the lives and health of our citizens."@en1
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