We continue to believe our shares are attractively priced at current levels and therefore, we currently intend to repurchase all of the shares issued within the next two years-- and that's in addition to what we planned to repurchase in the absence of the transaction.
"We worked very hard to identify a group of patients who had reached the limits of conventional treatment - for whom there is currently no effective therapy and therefore are at the greatest risk of death from the condition, " Dr Lipsman said.
The decision to meet followed a hectic round of consultations between Verhofstadt -- currently in the EU presidency and therefore chairing the summit -- and the fourteen other EU governments.
She said the health secretary's duties as currently defined in the bill were "neither prescriptive nor exhaustive" and therefore the amendment "would not give the secretary of state a new power to do anything that the clause does not already accommodate".