Archive
February 2008
Results of the Member Survey Are Now Available: Economic Conditions and the Capital Market Are Still Important Issues. General Satisfaction with the Association’s Work to Date.
The results of the member survey of December 2007 are now available. Responses were provided by some 30 per cent (n = 55) of the total number of members surveyed and were evaluated. The following are the most important results: ...
January 2008
Meeting of the Working Group on Competition and Regulatory Policy
At the end of January, BIO Deutschland’s Working Group on Competition and Regulatory Policy met in Bernried on the premises of the biotech company Epidauros AG. The agenda topics…
January 2008
Hearing on the Labelling of New Types of Food
On 16 January 2008, BIO Deutschland took part in the hearing on "Regulations on New Types of Food Products – Labelling of GM-Free Feed in Animal Products" at the Standing Committee for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection at the Lower House of the German Parliament (Bundestag)...
January 2008
Statement by BIO Deutschland on the Coexistence Regulations for New Types of Starch Potatoes
In mid-January 2008, the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture asked BIO Deutschland and other plant biotechnology lobby groups for statements on the subject of coexistence regulations for potatoes...
November 2007
Working Group on Finance and Taxation Meet in Zurich
At the beginning of November 2007, the Working Group on Finance and Taxation met CFOs of Swiss companies in Zurich...
November 2007
Letter to the WHO
At the beginning of November 2007, 13 biotechnology industrial associations and national biotechnology lobby groups submitted a joint position paper to the World Health Association (WHO), in which they made a case for strict regulations for the protection of intellectual property...
November 2007
Formative Meetings of Two New Working Groups
During the Bio Europe 2007 in Hamburg, experts from BIO Deutschland’s member companies met for the first time to establish two new working groups...
October 2007
Twelve Member Companies Join BIO Deutschland at the Biotechnica 2007
Visitors to BIO Deutschland’s joint stand at this year’s Biotechnica in Hanover included the Finance Minister of Lower Saxony, Hartmut Möllring (in the photograph with BIO Deutschland’s board members, Dr Uwe Maschek of MagForce Biotechnologies AG and Andreas Mietzsch of BIOCOM AG), the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Michael Thielen, and the Permanent Secretary of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Agriculture, Friedrich-Otto Ripke...
October 2007
Forum 3 at the Biotechnology Days
BIO Deutschland was involved in the organisation of the forums at the German Biotechnology Days. This successor event to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s Biotechnology Days was held for the first time this year from 8 – 9 October 2007 in the Convention Centre of the Deutsche Messe in Hanover...
September 2007
Statement on Risks Related to Financial Investments
At the end of September 2007, BIO Deutschland was asked by the Federal Ministry of Finance to provide a statement on the Draft Law on the Limitation of the Risks Associated with Financial Investments. In the document that was submitted to the Ministry, one of BIO Deutschland’s demands was the safeguarding of legal certainty for investors by clear wording in the draft of the law, as well as the avoidance of additional financial risks...
September 2007
Bundestag Hearing on the Draft Law on the Modernisation of Conditions for Capital Investments
BIO Deutschland was invited by the Bundestag’s parliamentary standing committee on finance to an expert hearing on the Law on the Modernisation of Conditions for Capital Investments...
September 2007
Seminar on Intellectual Property
In cooperation with the Working Group on Intellectual Property and Technical Contracts, BIODeutschland held a seminar on the topic of intellectual property on 13 September in Berlin...
August 2007
Against Unfair Competition
In the summer of 2007, BIO Deutschland’s Working Group on Competition and Regulatory Policy made a firm statement on the subject of unfair competition...
August 2007
New Statement on the Protection of Intellectual Property in Biotechnology
In a statement completed in the summer of 2007by the Working Group on Intellectual Property and Technical Contracts , BIO Deutschland strongly supports the improvement of conditions for the protection of intellectual property, in particular for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany and Europe...
May 2007
Advanced Cell Therapies: From 1 January 2008 the new European Law Will Come into Effect
At the end of May 2007, the European Council adopted the regulation on new therapies in the first reading. The aim of the regulation is to establish a tailor-made certification system for innovative therapeutic methods...