Industry has welcomed the European Commission’s introduction of priority freight lanes, or ‘green lanes’, for essential goods to help address the challenges posed by the coronavirus outbreak.

Recommending new medicines for approval and allowing sponsors of others extra time to answer outstanding questions are among the many tasks on the agenda of the March meeting of European Medicines Agency's key scientific committee, the CHMP. The meeting has been taking place, remotely, this week.

Mylan has waived US exclusivity rights to its generic version of AbbVie’s Kaletra, which is being investigated as a treatment for COVID-19, after a week of activity that has seen Israel move to compulsory-license generic versions of the brand and the originator step back from enforcing related intellectual property worldwide.