Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 as regards pharmacovigilance’

COM(2012) 51 final — 2012/0023 (COD)

2012/C 181/38

On 27 February and 16 February 2012 respectively, the Council and the European Parliament decided to consult the European Economic and Social Committee, under Articles 114 and 168 (4)(c) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, on the

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 as regards pharmacovigilance.

COM(2012) 51 final — 2012/0023 (COD).

Since the Committee endorses the content of the proposal and has already set out its views on the subject in its earlier opinion CESE 1025/2009, adopted on 10 June 2009 (1), it decided, at its 479th plenary session of 28 and 29 March 2012 (meeting of 28 March), by 157 votes to 1 with 9 abstentions, not to draw up a new opinion on the subject but to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned document.

(1)  OJ C 306, 16.12.2009, p. 33.