Translation of "dispositif de mou de chaîne " (French → English) :

(52) In order to better protect the health and safety of health professionals, patients, users and operators, including in the waste disposal chain, regarding devices on the market, the vigilance system for medical devices should be made more effective by creating a central portal at Union level for reporting serious incidents and field safety corrective actions.

Interim measures should require inter alia that manufacturing authorization holders, (including repackagers) who remove or cover up overt safety features applied on a voluntary basis by the originator, replace them with equivalent overt safety features, and be held strictly liable in the case of counterfeits entering the supply chain as a result of their actions.

These measures should require inter alia that manufacturing authorization holders, (including repackagers) who remove or cover up overt safety features applied on a voluntary basis by the originator, replace them with equivalent overt safety features, and be held strictly liable in the case of counterfeits entering the supply chain as a result of their actions.

The directive introduces obligatory safety features for all prescriptive medicinal products and a rapid alert system; harmonised safety features to verify authenticity and identify individual packs, providing tampering evidence for medicinal products subject to prescription (possible exclusion of certain products following a risk assessment); no safety features for medicinal products not subject to prescription, unless a risk assessment demonstrates the risk of falsification and consequently a threat to public health; traceability: there will be a unique identifier for the safety features (e.g. a serialisation number) which allows the authenticity of the product and individual packs to be verified throughout the supply ...[+++]chain up to pharmacy level; in addition, Member States have to set up systems to prevent suspected medicinal products from reaching patients; Internet sales: conditions for the supply of medicinal products to the public are determined by Member States; increased transparency as regards wholesale distributors; penalties applicable to infringements of national provisions must be applied.

No. The proposed Directive covers the enforcement of intellectual property rights, including that associated with the content used by TV stations, but not the "lock and key" technical conditional access devices pay-TV companies use to protect access to their services.

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