§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has any plans to require the inspection of pharmaceutical wholesaling establishments supplying the National Health Service with parallel imports, in those countries which are not a party to the pharmaceutical inspection convention.
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§ Mr. MellorNo. Arrangements for inspection of pharmaceutical wholesalers in other member states are a matter for the competent authorities in such states.
§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to seek concerted action by the United Kingdom's European Community partners in relation to recent problems associated with an unlicensed counterfeit medicine imported into the United Kingdom from Greece.
§ Mr. MellorThe representatives of the drug regulatory agencies in the European Community last week affirmed their commitment to inform each other without delay of any incident involving counterfeit materials. The United Kingdom has requested a meeting of Community experts to discuss aspects of the EC parallel importing scheme and this will include counterfeiting