Proposals on regulatory data protection and transferable exclusivity vouchers to encourage antimicrobial R&D have received mixed reactions from the parliament’s rapporteurs for the draft legislation.

The texts of the proposals cannot be formally presented to the European Parliament until they have been translated into all of the EU’s official languages.

The three major EU institutions are all calling for urgent action to tackle antimicrobial resistance, with the emphasis very much on incentives for the development of novel medicines and a reduction in overall consumption of antibiotics.