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Alain De Mesmaeker & Matthias Leuenberger
Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019 · 6:01 p.m. · 05m 56s
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um so are welcome everybody so were many people yesterday today
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we are at a bit less but the hardcore i guess
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and so i think uh what i've learned a lot time i'm not an expert in green
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and just intimate chemistry nice either i think time we not the low that had become one
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but uh i'm convinced that it's still important and that it was really time for the system because society
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to uh build the new group for the vision on this topic um
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i think that many people were thinking that it might be important wasting
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it's not anymore or i might but it's obvious to everybody but there
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is it for a long way to go uh in switzerland also in industry
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um the awareness about to be there but not that each level and then we
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have to reduce that to pack piece so um i think it's very important and
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also on top of that uh due to the unfortunate events which are coming at
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the global level with our planet it's clear that it's really a topic we're chemistry
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was responsible for some things not on the chemistry but we would certainly
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be part of the solution and i think it's so important and so relevant
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uh what we will continue to doing the topic so i'm i'm very happy control of all the
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contributions so far it was for me and for many others and the discussion as we're very fruit for
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so i will and over to my yes learn barrier um please
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q. very much how is it i sure it's a judgement
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it is english because i have prepared my few words in
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german but that doesn't matter since i also speak english stuff
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first of all thank you very much for having me thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to say a few words today
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um unfortunately i have to say i am only a lawyer by training when i say that i have to say
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i am this is certainly not my environment i have to admit that so just before coming yeah i was wondering around
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looking at all these uh very exciting machines and have to say i don't quite understand what they'll do
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but um rest assured i have seen many labs from the inside because i
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work for not artists so i do know what a lap looks from the inside
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now because i am a lawyer and because i'd share
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yeah no wiped his hands the signs industry the industry association
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the thing that i wanted to quickly share with you about this and ice house you
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know that very well is about the importance of the pharmaceutical industry in switzerland and force let's
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i mean everything starts with innovation innovation is all about signs it's
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about chemistry it's about biotechnology it's about all these uh apparatus here
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that you see but nonetheless let me give you just a few um data points so that you can grasp
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the importance of the pharmaceutical and chemical industry for switzerland
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so first of all i'm not sure whether you know all
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but half of all exports x. switzerland come from that
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chemical and pharmaceutical industry so all the talk of two hundred billion one hundred billion alone come from
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our industry and of course produced here and it's exactly these um apparatus here that you
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see in that you are all familiar with are taking a an important aspect of it
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fifty percent of these exports again they go into the european union and i'm not
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going to talk about the institutional framework agreement that is something that i usually do
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but you can grasp how important the european union is for us really
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and just another think a ninety eight percent of sales
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of the pharmaceutical it can be flimsy actually stands from exports
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so take no part is only two percent of our sales
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come from switzerland now my last figure but guess how much
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taxes we pay in switzerland the percentage there is forty
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forty percent of our worldwide taxes we pay in switzerland
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despite the fact that we only have two percent sales in switzerland
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now of course we want this to continue and stay like that
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than for that of course we need excellent framework conditions in switzerland
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we have them today but again i'm not going to talk about the institutional framework agreement that is important we have it
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excellent education system and of course we need access to other markets especially
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free trade agreements and then yes there is obviously also this um in
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the aspect of the environment and you may or may not know but today and yesterday
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in the parliament in switzerland they would just be baiting about the sales i guess it's carbon dioxide
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and let me tell you also that from a science industry's perspective and
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from a perspective of our industry we are also supportive of measures to car
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emissions in a carbon dioxide for sure i think there has to be now um
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a big step for what has to be made in that
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respect and we are also contributing to that from our industry certainly
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last but not least you may or may not know there is also
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an initiative that started already some thirty years ago it's called responsible k. yeah
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that is all about um how do we deal with chemical products how do we
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make sure that over the life cycle of these products we take based care of that
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that is an initiative that is a driven by signs industries and we're making sure
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that this is being implemented regular actually in switzerland also for the benefit of our environment
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so without further due and i don't want to get much much longer i thank you very much for intentional and
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oh really also curious to learn more about all these
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