Medtech & Pharma Platform Association

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.75 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Medtech & Pharma Platform   (MPP)

    EU Transparency Register

    234427831877-10 First registered on 25 Jun 2018

    Goals / Remit

    The Medtech & Pharma Platform Association (MPP) is a cross-sectoral not-for-profit industry association focusing on combined products, i.e. products that combine aspects of drugs, devices, diagnostics and/or software to fulfil a medical purpose. Members are Medtech, Pharma and Software companies as well as organizations dedicated to enhancing synergies between the sectors.

    Current and future innovative healthcare solutions increasingly rely on combined products developed by pharma- medtech and software companies. Collaboration between the sectors is therefore key to future innovations for patients and foster competitiveness on a global scale.

    Since combined products are governed by very different regulatory regimes, which inevitably create regulatory uncertainties, the MPP offers expertise and seeks dialogue with relevant stakeholders to collaborate on a proportionate regulatory framework for combined products.


    The association’s goals are

    • Establish new cross-sectoral industry collaboration models to ensure and accelerate market access for safe and innovative treatment options in the field of combined products.

    • Engage with relevant stakeholders and manage the interface between industry, policy makers, regulators and notified bodies to foster an open and transparent dialogue.

    • Provide a platform for joint work on a balanced and proportionate regulatory and political framework for combined products that

    o facilitates innovation for the European market, it’s industries and citizens

    o strengthens public health through improved patients’ access to innovative products

    o reduces time to market for drugs, devices and combinations thereof

    o promotes free trade and IP principles

    Medtech & Pharma Platform acts with a global mindset but initially focusses on European policy developments.

    Main EU files targeted

    The Medtech & Pharma Platform Association was founded in 2017 and started its activities in 2018.

    The Medtech & Pharma Platform monitors EU legislative, policy and regulatory developments relating to combined products.

    Specifically, the Medtech & Pharma Platform follows:
    • Medical Device Regulation EU 2017/745 & In vitro Diagnostic Regulation EU 2017/746
    and their implementing and delegated acts as well as any related guidance document
    • Medicinal Product Directive EU 2001/83
    • Proposal for a Regulation on Health Technology Assessment
    • General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679
    • Clinical Trials Regulation EU 536/2014
    • Policy initiatives, projects, events and publications from DG SANTE, DG GROW, DG CONNECT, DG RESEARCH
    • EU Pharmaceutical Strategy - Timely patient access to affordable medicines
    • New Industrial strategy for Europe
    • European’s Digital Strategy
    • Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe
    • Institutional agreement Switzerland-EU

    Address

    Head Office
    Medtech & Pharma Platform
    c/o SFL Regulatory Affairs & Scientific Communication GmbH
    Basel 4002
    SWITZERLAND
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%1
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    Within the cluster of 25% working time there are two persons which together work 25 %.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    n.a.

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    Other financial info

    MPP is funded by membership contributions

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    Stakeholder engagement, projects:
    The MPP engages with relevant stakeholders on a European level, offers expertise and seeks dialogue to collaborate on a proportionate regulatory framework for combined products.

    MPP has two active working groups in place which develop comprehensive reflection papers and best-practice guides related to combined products:
    • Working Group on Combined Products, focusing on co-packaged drug-device-combinations and single integral combination products
    • Working Group on Connected Combined Products (device, drug, in-vitro diagnostic, digital applications), focusing on regulatory aspects of connected combined products

    Publications:
    White Paper on EU regulatory and policy framework for combined products; October 2018
    Reflection paper on regulatory uncertainties for co-packaged and cross-labelled drug-device combinations under the new Medical Device Regulation, December 2019

    Events:
    MPP annual conference
    • The annual MPP conference is the leading event in the sector of products and solutions that combine medtech and pharma components. The event is dedicated to enhancing partnership between the pharma and medtech industries.
    The conference provides a forum to exchange knowledge, identify new challenges and opportunities, initiate collaborations and propose improvements to regulatory frameworks and policy, toward the goal of expediting patient access to innovative combined products

    Trainings
    The MPP association offers specialized, accredited training courses providing comprehensive and up-to-date insights on the latest regulatory and legislative developments related to combined products, medicinal products, medical devices, and invitro diagnostics

    Other activities

    MPP is acknowledged as Industry stakeholder for interaction with the European Medicines Agency (EMA)

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    1 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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