I'm in the India monitoring group on behalf of the Greens due to my commitments in the INTA committee. I think we're having the first meeting in this monitoring group next week, although last I heard they had problems finding meeting rooms for Thursday morning.
The problem with the access to medicines (you probably already know since you follow the issue) is that India and the EU signed an agreement that no further busts were to be made for in-transit drugs. Then, just a couple of weeks ago, there was anyway another bust by the Dutch border of in-transit drugs so now there's doubt about whether or not the EU intends to honour their commitments. If I'm not mistaken the data exclusivity clauses were taken out of the FTA, but some stuff on SpicyIP made me doubt whether this also holds true for data exclusivity on chemicals.
The person in the Green Group who's been following the EU/India FTA most closely is Ska Keller from Die Grünen and she might be able to provide more precise information. She's on twitter as @skakeller and I'm sure she'd be happy if you asked her directly!
I'm in the India monitoring group on behalf of the Greens due to my commitments in the INTA committee. I think we're having the first meeting in this monitoring group next week, although last I heard they had problems finding meeting rooms for Thursday morning.
The problem with the access to medicines (you probably already know since you follow the issue) is that India and the EU signed an agreement that no further busts were to be made for in-transit drugs. Then, just a couple of weeks ago, there was anyway another bust by the Dutch border of in-transit drugs so now there's doubt about whether or not the EU intends to honour their commitments. If I'm not mistaken the data exclusivity clauses were taken out of the FTA, but some stuff on SpicyIP made me doubt whether this also holds true for data exclusivity on chemicals.
The person in the Green Group who's been following the EU/India FTA most closely is Ska Keller from Die Grünen and she might be able to provide more precise information. She's on twitter as @skakeller and I'm sure she'd be happy if you asked her directly!