EU to propose easing medicines flow from Britain to Northern Ireland

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission is due to set out on Friday legal changes to ease the transport of medicines from Britain to Northern Ireland, a move that could relieve EU-UK tensions over the British province’s future after Brexit. The flow of medicines is currently unimpeded, but set to change when a grace period expires at the end of the year. Then British operators would need to move regulatory compliance and logistics and testing facilities to the European Union or to Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom but within the EU single market for goods. The cost of …

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