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MESSAGE FROM DAVID BRENNAN

Chief Executive Officer

CODE OF CONDUCT

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INTERACTIONS WITH HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND ORGANISATIONS*

IN ALL OUR INTERACTIONS WITH HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND ORGANISATIONS, WE MUST OBSERVE HIGH STANDARDS OF INTEGRITY AND HONESTY.

All our interactions with healthcare professionals and organisations must be intended to ensure the effective use of our medicines and to enhance patient care. This can include advancing medical research, enhancing medical knowledge or practice management, or gathering necessary feedback about our medicines.

We must only engage the services of healthcare professionals and organisations when they are legitimately needed, and we must not pay more than an appropriate market rate for the services rendered.

We must not enter into business relationships or offer or provide gifts, hospitality or anything else of value, to induce or reward favourable decisions about our products and services.

We must always provide information about our products to healthcare professionals and organisations in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Code and supporting policies.

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>	Comply with the IFPMA Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices, local laws, regulations and applicable codes of marketing practice and our own, often more strict, local codes.
>	Only make payments to healthcare professionals and organisations when there is a written contract in place.
>	Do not offer payments, gifts, hospitality, entertainment or anything else of value if it could constitute a bribe to a healthcare professional or organisation.

Interactions with healthcare professionals and organisations include all meetings, communications, research and service arrangements, including product promotion, speaking engagements, advisory board meetings, consulting agreements, conferences, congresses and symposia.

*For a definition of "healthcare professionals and organisations", see page 21.

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