Industry committee  If you added on patent term extensions to the whole system today for the pharmaceutical industry, you would do real damage to our industry and the 12,000 jobs that we have across the country. You would damage the manufacturing sector, in particular, within our industry if you extended patents.

Industry committee  It's the patented medicines notice of compliance regulations. Forgive me for—

Industry committee  My apologies as well; I will answer the question in English. I would hazard a guess that there would be agreement that improvement could be made to our system to provide greater business certainty. As it stands, the PMNOC regime, which is unique to our industry sector, has some faults.