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DoD Tightens Counterfeit Prevention Policy

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.02.13

On April 26, 2013, DoD issued an Instruction to establish policies to prevent the introduction of counterfeit material at any level of the DoD supply chain and to seek restitution for critical failures and damages caused by such material. DoD component heads are tasked with integrating the policy into contract requirements and procedures, procuring critical material only from suppliers that meet appropriate counterfeit avoidance criteria or applying additional risk management measures when such suppliers are not available, using sampling techniques and material testing for detection, and reporting all suspected or confirmed occurrences.

 

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Client Alert | 9 min read | 07.09.25

The New EU “Pharma Package”: Regulatory data protection – A comparison of Commission/Parliament/Council positions

In our first alert in our new weekly series on the EU Pharma Package, we provided some important background and general information about the status of the Pharma Package and how the trilogues work. In this second alert, we will discuss the respective positions of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union with respect to one of the most debated and anxiously anticipated topics on the table, the regulatory data protection (RDP)....