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Client Alerts 22 results
Client Alert | 14 min read | 12.22.25
European Commission Proposes Biotech Act to Boost Health Biotechnology in the EU
On December 16, 2025, the European Commission published its proposal for a regulation establishing a European Biotech Act to strengthen the EU's biotechnology and biomanufacturing sectors with a primary focus on health.
Client Alert | 11 min read | 12.22.25
European Commission Proposes Simplifying the Rules on EU Medical and In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices
The European Commission has proposed targeted amendments to the Medical Devices Regulation 2017/745 (MDR) and the In-Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation 2017/746 (IVDR). The amendments are intended to simplify the rules, reduce the administrative burden, and enhance the predictability and cost-efficiency of notified body certification, while maintaining high public health and patient safety standards.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 12.17.25
The new EU Bioeconomy Strategy: a regulatory framework in transition
On 27 November 2025, the European Commission adopted the EU Bioeconomy Strategy 2025 (the Strategy), confirming the bioeconomy as a central pillar of Europe’s industrial, sustainability, and competitiveness agenda. The bioeconomy covers activities that deliver sustainable solutions based on biological resources, including biomass, residues, byproducts, and biogenic carbon, across sectors such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, biomanufacturing, food, health, energy, materials, and construction.
Client Alert | 6 min read | 11.25.25
Brussels Court Clarifies the EU’s SPC Manufacturing Waiver Regulation Rules
On November 13, 2025, the president of the French-speaking Brussels Enterprise Court ruled in the long-running battle between Sandoz and Regeneron about the correct interpretation of the EU’s Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Manufacturing Waiver Regulation regarding exports to a non-EU market. The Brussels Court dismissed Regeneron’s claim that Sandoz had provided a defective notification and agreed with Sandoz’s interpretation of the Regulation.
Client Alert | 10 min read | 08.27.25
The New EU “Pharma Package”: Advertising – A Comparison of Commission/Parliament/Council Positions
In this ninth and final alert in our weekly series on the EU Pharma Package, we consider the proposals of the European Commission, European Parliament and the Council of the EU as regards the advertising of medicinal products and we conclude by suggesting various ways in which pharmaceutical companies can already prepare for the upcoming changes.
Client Alert | 15 min read | 08.20.25
In this eighth alert in our weekly series on the EU Pharma Package, we continue our overview of initiatives with respect to security of supply and shortage prevention and mitigation. Our last alert looked at how the Pharma Package seeks to address these issues. However, the Pharma Package does not exist in isolation, and in this alert we will discuss the interplay between its measures and those contained in other important EU initiatives such as the proposed Critical Medicines Act (CMA), and the Medicinal Countermeasures Strategy and the EU Stockpiling Strategy.
Client Alert | 16 min read | 08.13.25
In this seventh alert in our weekly series on the Pharma Package, we will discuss the increasing focus on shortages of medicinal products in the EU and the prevention and mitigation measures as proposed by the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.
Client Alert | 11 min read | 08.06.25
In this sixth alert in our weekly series on the EU Pharma Package, we focus on the proposals of the European Commission, European Parliament and Council of the EU for another topic with a highly debated scope and with diverging interpretations across EU Member States: the “Bolar” exemption.
Client Alert | 6 min read | 07.30.25
The new EU “Pharma Package”: Global (Orphan) Marketing Authorization
In this fifth alert in our weekly series on the EU Pharma Package, we will delve into the global marketing authorization (GMA) concept which has largely remained untouched in the legislative proposal – aside from an important introduction of the notion of a GMA for orphan medicinal products. We will discuss the missed opportunity to codify existing case law and provide further clarification in this respect.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 07.23.25
The New EU “Pharma Package”: The Debate on Fiscal Import in the Supply Chain
In our first alert in this 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 the second alert, we discussed the proposed changes to regulatory data protection. Our third alert delved into the different proposals of the European Commission, Parliament, and the Council regarding the transferable exclusivity voucher (TEV) for priority antimicrobials.
Client Alert | 8 min read | 07.16.25
In our first alert in this 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, and in the second alert we discussed the proposed changes to regulatory data protection.
Client Alert | 9 min read | 07.09.25
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).
Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.30.25
Client Alert Series: The New EU “Pharma Package”
On June 4, 2025, after nearly two years of intense debate and negotiation between the 27 EU Member States, the Council of the European Union adopted its position on the proposed overhaul of the EU general pharmaceutical legislative framework known as the new Pharma Package.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.30.25
The New EU “Pharma Package”: Preparing for the Trilogues
On June 4, 2025, after nearly two years of intense debate and negotiation between the 27 EU Member States, the Council of the European Union adopted its position on the proposed overhaul of the EU general pharmaceutical legislative framework known as the new Pharma Package.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 11.05.24
On September 3, 2024, the EU Court of Justice overturned the first-instance judgment of the EU General Court, which had held that the European Commission could review transactions that fall below EU and Member States' merger control thresholds through referrals by national competition authorities under Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (Case C-611/22 P, Illumina v Commission).
Client Alert | 7 min read | 10.09.24
The EU Institutions are currently adding the finishing touches to the new Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation (“PPWR”) which is expected to be adopted in Q4 2024 or Q1 2025. While many companies are fully preoccupied with preparing for other EU legislation (e.g. the Deforestation Regulation) – companies will ignore the PPWR at their peril. The PPWR contains a host of ambitious legal targets and requirements – which industry will find it difficult to achieve in practice. And the deadlines to comply – are perhaps even more challenging. Companies will need to start preparing for the EU PPWR now, to avoid serious problems – including supply-chain disruption, penalties and litigation – in the future.
Client Alert | 6 min read | 07.25.24
The EU legal and policy framework regarding critical medicines and medicine shortages is rapidly changing. In the past 12 months alone, there have been numerous developments: from the ‘Non-Paper’; to the Communication on ‘Addressing medicine shortages’; and the launch of the Critical Medicines Alliance. In the next 12 months, there is likely to be similar developments – including a possible draft proposal for a ‘Critical Medicines Act’. As the new regulatory framework becomes clearer, pharma companies will need to understand it, and prepare for the impact it will have.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.24.24
The Judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeal is the latest development in the saga in Belgium where a Belgian parallel importer, PI Pharma NV, imported a generic Sandoz product from the Netherlands, repackaged and rebranded them, and placed them on the Belgian market alleging they were a Novartis’ originator product.
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.22.23
A New Patent System is Born in Europe
Unitary Patents are being granted and the Unified Patent Court is up and running as of June 1, 2023. Since the 1970’s, there have been attempts at establishing a unitary European patent that would cover multiple European countries and would be enforced by a single court system. This type of system is in contrast to the system known since 1973 of granting European Patents by the European Patent Office (EPO) and validating the European Patent in designated European countries, wherein each validated patent is enforced in the national court associated with the validated patent.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 11.29.22
On November 17, 2022, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued four important decisions (here) relating to parallel imports of branded products within the internal market of the European Union (EU). This is a complex topic at the crossroads of free movement of goods and trademark enforcement in the EU.
