Adopted codifed version of Council Regulation 1768/92 now published

Last year, we posted a short piece on the proposed codification of the Council Regulation 1768/92 concerning supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products. The proposed text was finally adopted by the European Parliament on 21 October 2008 and the full codified Regulation was recently published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Readers can get a copy of the codifed regulation here.

Thanks to Martijn de Lang for pointing this out.

E-notice regarding codification exercise

The European Commission has published a proposal for a codified version of the Council Regulation concerning supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products. The objective is not to improve or amend the law, but merely to reduce the volume of Community law. The proposal will involve the numbering of several articles and recitals of the existing legislation.

Remarkably, the claim is made that the volume of European Union legislation stands at around 85,000 pages. Anyone who regularly reads the Official Journal would be likely to guess that the real figure stood at many times that number.

Readers can review the proposed codified site here.