With respect to retroactivity, the provisions of Bill C-30 should apply, in terms of this patent extension or certificates of supplementary protection, only to products approved after the coming into force of CETA. The amendment we have makes that absolutely clear, and I'm hoping it will be done.
On combination products, we're concerned more about evergreening, a term that's sometimes used, whereby protection goes to an underlying molecule. It gets an extension, and it's combined with a further molecule to produce a combination product, which can have a separate approval. If there have already been extensions for the underlying products, we don't think the extension product should also get extra protection. This has happened in Europe. Our colleagues in the European Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association have told us this, and they have encouraged us to be very careful with it. We're proposing this amendment to try to make sure this doesn't occur in Canada.