(2) In order to take into account the evolution of the pharmaceutical market and of national policies to control public expenditure on medicinal products, substantive changes are necessary to all major provisions of Directive 89/105/EEC.

(2) In order to take into account the evolution of the pharmaceutical market and of national policies to control public expenditure on medicines, substantive changes are necessary to all major provisions of Directive 89/105/EEC.

The aim of this official public register is to make clinical research on pharmaceuticals more transparent for patients and others and to avoid unnecessary duplication of clinical trials.

Moreover, competent authorities in Member States should be given sufficient custom powers to control international trade of timber products, even by boarding shipment cargos, to investigate crime and alleged infringements, to alert prosecutors on cases of offenders, and to register illegal practices.

Control measures are reinforced in the Commission’s proposal, and farmers and other professional users will have to keep records of their use of plant protection products.

25. Stresses the paramount importance, underlined in paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPs Agreement and Public Health, of better access to medicines for developing countries in order to foster development through the preservation of human life, and the need to fully integrate this dimension in the development policy of the EU and invites the Commission to play a leading role in order to securing multilaterally agreed solutions to effective access to medicines. Reaffirms the EU's commitment to examining, inter alia, the relationship between the TRIPs agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity, the protection of tradi ...[+++]tional knowledge and folklore and the protection of geographical indications, with a view to taking into account the specific interests of developing countries.