It should therefore be ensured that economically sensitive data relating to port authorities and operators, terminal operators, fleet managers, shippers, freight forwarders and shipping companies are excluded from mandatory data processing.

In order to ensure the efficient processing of applications for compulsory licences under this Regulation, Member States should have the ability to prescribe purely formal or administrative requirements, such as rules on the language of the application, the form to be used, the identification of the patent(s) and/or supplementary protection certificate(s) in respect of which a compulsory licence is sought, and rules on applications made in electronic form.

(14) In order to ensure the efficient processing of applications for compulsory licences under this Regulation, Member States should have the ability to prescribe purely formal or administrative requirements, such as rules on the language of the application, the form to be used, the identification of the patent(s) and/or supplementary protection certificate(s) in respect of which a compulsory licence is sought, and rules on applications made in electronic form.

For second-line treatments for HIV/AIDS that have been put on the market only recently, this can be achieved in particular thanks to the granting of a voluntary or compulsory licence to a generic manufacturer with a view to allowing him to develop such a treatment.

- the Member State concerned must inform the other Member States and the Commission of its decision to require compulsory treatment".

Because I should like to draw your attention to the following point: if we create systems at European level which can directly violate people’s basic freedoms – and the anthropometric treatment of a person, compulsory treatment of a person is a violation of his individual rights – if we create institutions at European level which have these rights then the Executive must be subject to parliamentary scrutiny and the people affected by the measures must have legal recourse, both of which are lacking in almost every system which we have created within the framework of internal security in the European Union.