Time Is Running Out For Revised EU Clinical Trials Legislation
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
A compromise has not been reached yet by EU stakeholders on the new Clinical Trials Directive, but unless one emerges soon, the legislation will be dead.
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