CPA, the Italian Association of Active and Intermediate Producers for the pharmaceutical generic market founded on 19 November 2002, represents a lot of companies in the Italian industrial pharmaceutical chemical field. CPA is a new idea of Association: Nimble, careful, easygoing. Strongly oriented to the services which improve the daily-works. CPA is the chemical-pharmaceutical industries' strategic consultant, a partnership always present and updated, a researcher, a scientist, and expert, place of meeting and exchange The Association has a voluntary nature and is a not profit organization. It has a decisional as well as operational and representative autonomy. Furthermore the CPA Association would like to be the strategic consultant for the chemical – pharmaceutical industry of pharmaceutical generics, an always present and informed partner, a scientist, a researcher, an expert, a meeting and exchange fulcrum.