{"id":698,"date":"2004-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:26:43","slug":"letter-to-the-standing-committee-on-industry-science-and-technology-re-bill-c-9-and-the-issue-of-ngo-procurement-of-canadian-made-phramaceuticals","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/letter-to-the-standing-committee-on-industry-science-and-technology-re-bill-c-9-and-the-issue-of-ngo-procurement-of-canadian-made-phramaceuticals\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology re: Bill C-9 and the issue of NGO procurement of Canadian-made phramaceuticals"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8221;As was requested by the Committee when we appeared before you on February 26, 2004, we have provided the Committee with our supplementary submissions regarding the alternatives to the &#8216;right of refusal&#8217; that had been proposed to the Committee\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, discussions at subsequent Committee meetings have indicated that Committee members are under a fundamental misapprehension with regard to another key aspect of our submission \u2014 namely, the concern that Bill C-9 excludes the possibility of NGOs procuring lower-cost pharmaceutical products from Canadian generic producers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are concerned that Committee members have an incorrect impression of the concern that NGOs have raised. . . .&#8221;<br \/>\n<!-- Jean Chr\u00e9tien Pledge to Africa, Bill C-9, patent, Patent Act, Food and Drugs Act, compulsory licensing, export, developing countries, right of first refusal, generic, manufacturer, producer, pharmaceutical, product, access to medicines, World Trade Organization, Doha Declaration, Decision of 30 August 2003 \/ August 30, 2003 Decision, TRIPS, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, House of Commons, Parliament, Right to health, Schedule 1 --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Letter to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology re: Bill C-9 and the issue of NGO procurement of Canadian-made phramaceuticals\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/9934\/?tmstv=1777602634\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[145],"publication_type":[170],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-698","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-access-to-medicines","publication_type-advocacy","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20747,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/698\/revisions\/20747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}