(10) Obligation to supply medicines for wholesalers in the light of competition protection and sector-specific regulation provisions (2015)

Activity: Scientific expertise
Title: Duty to supply medicine to wholesalers in the light of competition law and sector-specific regulation
Authors: Prof. dr. Tadeusz Skoczny (University of Warsaw, Department of European Economic Law at the Faculty of Management) with the cooperation of Marcin Kolasiński (University of Warsaw PhD student at the Department of European Economic Law at the Faculty of Management)
Date of online publication: 29 January 2015

The expertise was commissioned by INFARMA the Employers’ Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies. The project related to the, at that time, ongoing legislative works on amendments to Poland’s Pharmaceutical Law. As the CARS expertise was published on its website, a condition of accepting the commission in the first place, its results were available also outside the legislative process.

The main aim of the expertise was to verify whether it is necessary to guarantee supplies to wholesalers of refunded medicine in order to ensure that patients’ everyday needs are fulfilled.

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