Sunday, August 5, 2012

India, China plan to jointly oppose EU regulation on API at WTO forum

Joseph Alexander, New Delhi
Monday, August 06, 2012, 08:00 Hrs  [IST]
India and China may together move the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against the European Union (EU) regulation on bulk drugs which may affect the current exports of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) from both the countries to Europe.

EU has changed the rules for importing active substances into EU for medicinal products for human use and the amended regulation would come into effect fully by July 2013. It would make mandatory the current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) certificate from the local authority for all bulk drugs exports.

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