In order for pharmaceutical products to qualify as tiered priced products, their manufacturers or exporters of products must submit applications to the Commission.

The alternative is to allow low-cost products that have been made without respecting Union law to enter the market and, therefore, enter into unfair competition with European products, the production and/or manufacture of which is far more expensive.

4. Stresses the need to raise public awareness of consumer product’s total environmental costs; calls on the Commission and Council to put forward measures for the provision of information on the energy consumed and greenhouse gases emitted during the manufacture and transport of products placed on sale within the European Union, such as the proposal made by the UK Government to introduce carbon footprint product labels displaying the level of CO2 emission caused by the production, transport and eventual disposal of a product; further calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that environmental costs are incorporated into prices for goods and serv ...[+++]ices and that those costs are listed separately from the retail price of the individual goods and services, as is already done with the levy on the collection of waste electrical and electronic equipment;

The Commission asks the Member States to remove price controls on manufacturers that prevent full competition for medicines that are not reimbursed by the State and for those which are not to be sold to the public sector.

Manufacturers and exporters must submit such sales reports annually for each tiered priced product to the Commission on a confidential basis.

In addition to the basic price derived from the intervention price for white sugar and fixed values representing the processing margin, the yield, undertakings' receipts from sales of molasses and, where applicable, the cost incurred in delivering beet to undertakings, minimum prices should therefore be fixed for A beet intended for processing into A sugar and for B beet intended for processing into B sugar, to be paid by sugar manufacturers buying beet.