Thank you.
Again, in the context of a fall consultation period when there was no dialogue or briefing directly with the minister, the language of asking us to suspend is what hurt our credibility.
Second, there were broad similarities. Of course the wording was not exactly the same. The language of “shortages” could be interpreted to refer to “Well, we won't launch products in this country if these pricing reforms become real.” That is very much a talking point that industry has offered.
With the uncertainty of new guidelines, of course there was going to be a period of change. There was going to be a transitional period when we collected information and started to apply the new guidelines in practice. Of course, nobody likes change, but there were new regulations, so we needed new guidelines.
That point about uncertainty was also very similar to industry's talking points.