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Policy positions

Our position on key issues
There is a wide range of issues that affect the industry and it is important that we have clear positions to contribute to the debate.

There is some criticism that companies are not transparent about their positions on key issues. GSK considers that, by definition, when we lobby on an issue then it becomes public and we prepare all position statements assuming that this will be the case. While we publish position statements on many key issues on our website, it would be impractical and inefficient to do this with every issue on which we have a view. We are however, happy to discuss our position on any issue with legitimate parties.

The issues covered on the website change as and when new issues or updated statements are prepared. The current position statements can be found at www.gsk.com. The current issues covered include:

• Clinical trials in developing countries
• Counterfeit medicines
• Developing world challenges and access to medicines
• Importation of medicines
• Intellectual property and the TRIPS agreement
• Product diversion
• Preparations for a flu pandemic

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