A Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe
This own-initiative report sets out Parliament's position on a Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe; as an own-initiative report it is not itself law and is not binding. It was handled by the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee alongside Industry, Research and Energy and Legal Affairs, in the area of pharmaceutical products and industry. The tabled amendments address medicine shortages and strategic autonomy, diversification of supply chains and stockpiling of essential medicines, intellectual property and supplementary protection certificates, generic and biosimilar competition and the Bolar exemption, price transparency and affordability, and the use of health data, artificial intelligence and research incentives. It shares this subject with related files including 'European Medicines Agency'.
Procedure timeline
- Committee amendments tabled2 Jun 2021 – 10 Jun 2021
- Plenary vote — Passed24 Nov 2021 · On the motion for a resolution — the text as a whole
- Procedure completed
Plenary votes
2 roll-call votesIn plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →
- 23 Nov 2021Failedoutcome from totalsOn amendment 1 — paragraph 163Official label: § 163 - Am 1 · what was voted ↗148 for501 against16 abstentions40 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 24 Nov 2021Main votePassedoutcome from totalsOn the motion for a resolution — the text as a wholeOfficial label: Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte) · what was voted ↗527 for92 against70 abstentions16 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only
Official amendment documents
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109 Members · by amendment countThe amendments, in full text
1,112 amendmentsEvery amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.