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Health is the most important asset in everyone’s life. The commercial availability of a variety of falsified medicines, especially life-saving medicines, has therefore rightly aroused the fears of citizens. The vast and steadily growing number of counterfeit products seized in the EU every year may be reason for concern. It is therefore necessary for us to respond decisively to this phenomenon, which is nothing other than organised criminal activity. Patients must be absolutely sure that the medicines they take are authentic.
This is why I support the rapporteur’s position that protection against counterfeit drugs should be the overriding aim of the directive, from which we must not be diverted. I fully agree too with the proposal to include the online distribution of drugs in the directive. In such cases patients are mainly reliant on themselves, and their medical knowledge does not necessarily enable them to identify a fake product. The rules must be clear when it comes to such an important issue as health. We should eliminate any risks."@en1
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