Specialized Committees
German-US-American Co-operation
Information and experience exchange on practical issues regarding transatlantic themes, contact establishing and event planning together with the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. More
Diagnostics
From high-performance sequence analysis to genetic diagnostics and in vitro diagnostics –conditions in the diagnostics sector need to be right so that the German biotech industry can continue to grow. More
Financing / Taxation
equity financing, formulation of new marktet-orientated funding schemes, influencing/creating the fiscal framework, i.a. More
Health Policy
counselling in and support of the implementation of the EU regulatory framework into national law, active participation in the legislative process covering areas like patent protection, regulatory approvals, and new technologies, i.a. More
Human Resources
This Specialised Committee supports the Organisation´s needs when lobbying on human resources issues. More
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Jobs
The main aims of this working group are to support the implementation of the German Federal Government’s High Tech Strategy by developing concrete showcase projects in cooperation with the member companies, especially as regards innovation and jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises in the overlapping fields of red and industrial (white) biotechnology; to contribute to the German economic initiative, the Federation of German Industries’ (BDI) Initiative - Innovation Strategies and Knowledge Management; to design a road map for the biotechnology markets; and to work with the CDU Economic Committee’s Commission on Growth and Innovation on the design of a showcase project. More
Public Relations (foundation stage)
The topics to be covered by this working group will include the image of biotech entrepreneurs among the public, as well as the contribution made by biotechnological processes to improving nutrition and health and to sustainable industrial manufacturing.
Regulatory Affairs
The Committee works on the following issues:
- Downsizing Bureaucracy
- Biosafety Risk Management
- National Tissue Engineering Law
- Stem Cell
- Risk Management Plan
- Advanced Cell Therapies
- European centralised authorisation
Protection Rights and Technical Contracts
Importance of protection rights for a sustainable and continual innovation in Germany and throughout Europe, reduction of protection right costs for SMEs, removal of current structures in the field of technology transfer that prevent innovation, etc. More
Competition and market steering policy
Identification of cases of distorted competition in the German biotechnology sector, publication of cases of distorted competition, removal of structures that lead to distorted competition, etc. More