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VEGAS LEX took part in a discussion of new threats to the pharmaceutical market and legislative and regulatory compliance practices in the industry in 2014 at a roundtable conference at the Russian Association of Pharmaceutical Marketing.

On October 30, 2014 head of VL Commercial Group spoke for the first time at the roundtable Three New Threats Facing Russia’s Pharmaceutical Market organized by the Russian Association of Pharmaceutical Marketing for major pharmaceutical producers.

Не spoke about this year’s main trends in legislative and regulatory compliance practices in this sphere and analyzed and summarized the Federal Anti-monopoly Service’s decisions and commercial court rulings as examples.

The participants considered important aspects of public procurement of medicines, such as reasons for declining a bid due to potential violation of an existing patent for a drug in question, criteria for confirming that two medicines are equal substitutes, and the widely disputed status of a local medicine.

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VEGAS LEX has extensive experience in consulting for pharmaceutical and medical product suppliers on various issues of the pharmaceutical market and medical industry regulation. For more information on the company’ services please go here.

The Russian Association of Pharmaceutical Marketing (RAFM) is an association of pharmaceutical market experts aimed at upholding their rights and lawful interests and coordinating their efforts to summarize and generalize individual experience and resolve important issues.