BETA

3 Amendments of Othmar KARAS related to 2021/2013(INI)

Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the disruption of the global supply chain ensuing from the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the EU’s dependency on third countries in the health sector; whereas the EU's open strategic autonomy and security of supply should be ensured by diversification of supply chains for essential medicines and medicinal products, including European manufacturing sites, as well as by applying public procurement rules that should not consider price as the sole criterion;
2021/06/02
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to work towards a European public biomedical infrastructure covering the entire medicines value chain and to develop the prospective European Health Emergency Response Authority (HERA) along those lines; considers that HERA should closely collaborate with public and private entities to plan, coordinate and build an ecosystem of private and public capabilities which can provide suitable emergency frameworks for EU access to key raw materials in case of global supply chocks;
2021/06/02
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to develop a new incentive model, look into decoupling mechanisms as an alternative to exclusive protections, and attach strict conditions to public funds in accordance with the principle of fair return on investmenttargeted incentives to ensure equitable access to medicines also in areas where the development of products would otherwise not be sustainable;
2021/06/02
Committee: ITRE