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Marie Louise Bistrup
Coordinator, EUnetHTA Open
Stakeholder Forum
EUnetHTA
National Board of Health
Denmark
Email: eunethta@sst.dk
14 January 2008
Dear Ms Bistrup,
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Proposal for EUnetHTA
Collaboration 2009+.
EuropaBio is the European Association for Bioindustries, solely and uniquely bringing
together bioscience companies from all fields of research and development, testing,
manufacturing and distribution of biotechnology products. It has 84 corporate members
operating worldwide, 8 associate members, 6 BioRegions and 25 national biotechnology
associations representing some 1800 small and medium sized enterprises involved in research.
Its mission is to promote an innovative and dynamic biotechnology-based industry in Europe.
Our successful positioning as a single entry point for reaching Europe’s biotech industry has
seen us invited by the European Commission to be a Member of the High Level
Pharmaceutical Forum, and to participate in its Working Group on Relative Effectiveness.
We were also involved and highly supportive of initiatives on HTA undertaken within the
frame of HTAi Society.
As a general comment, EuropaBio welcomes this EUnetHTA initiative, as we believe that it
represents an important step forward in the European process of disseminating and
understanding of HTA principles and methods. EuropaBio strongly supports the goal of
developing a sustainable collaboration to advocate and facilitate robust, transparent and
predictable HTA analysis that will serve as a useful and independent tool in the hands of
decision makers.
We call on EUnetHTA to promote throughout