[Ip-health] Netherlands assures India to sort out drug seizure issue

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Netherlands assures India to sort out drug seizure issue
New Delhi (PTI): The Netherlands on Tuesday assured New Delhi that it will
sort out the issue of frequent seizure of generic drugs produced in India
by European countries on the pretext of patent protection.
Dutch Foreign Trade Minister Frank Heemskerk's, who is on a week-long
visit to India, said patent protection should not be used as an excuse for
hampering the distribution of generic drugs among the poor people across
the globe.
Recently European authorities had confiscated a ship-load of Indian
medicines on the way to Brazil and Columbia on the charges of patent
infringement, which evoked a sharp reaction from India and Brazil.
"It was some technical issue, there were some EU regulations and we should
sort out this because the Netherlands is very important transit hub (for
drugs) and there should be no unclarity between EU regulations and Trade
Related Intellectual Property Rights," Heemskerk said. He also assured
that it would worked towards sorting out the issue.
The issue came up during the meeting of Commerce and Industry Minister
Kamal Nath and the Dutch minister. "I have raised our concern on the
seizure of pharmaceutical consignment in the Netherlands and he has
assured me that his government will look into the matter expeditiously,"
Nath said.
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