In the next issue of the Comunicaciones journal, CEFI is pleased to count on the expert opinion of Jesús Rubí Navarrete, Deputy Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and Rafael Garcia Gozalo, Executive Advisor and Head of the AEPD’s International Division, as they analyse the Guideline on the use of cookies in light […]
Natividad Calvente Cestafe, Director of Innovation, Training and Institutional Relations at the General Council of Pharmaceutical Associations contributes to a monographic issue of the journal Cuadernos de Derecho Farmacéutico [Pharmaceutical Law Review] with a magnificent article on early access to therapeutic innovation, which is one of the greatest challenges faced by health systems and the […]
Commentary on the Royalty Pharma Ruling of the CJEU of 30 April 2020. Full text: Comunicaciones ENG oct 2020 pag
The reference price system and annual reference price orders are intended to contribute to the sustainability of the SNS. They should also promote the right balance between innovative generic/biosimilar, competition and competitiveness in the pharmaceutical and health market. Price decisions must respond to a real market situation with a competitor with a different product price. […]
Issue 74 (July-September 2020) of the journal Cuadernos de Derecho Farmacéutico is available online. Monographic issue ‘Spanish National Health System changes for innovation, efficiency and patient service’. Contents: CEFI position paper. Spanish National Health System changes for innovation, efficiency and patient service. CEFI Foundation Innovation for reconstruction in COVID times. Lourdes Fraguas Gadea Improving access […]
The Ministry of Health has published Draft Order SND/ /2020, of, by which the price reference system for medicinal products in the Spanish National Health System will be updated in 2020. The text is available for consultation and comments on the Ministry’s website.
Amidst the current health, social and economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and in a context conducive to reflection and debate with the creation of the Commission for the Social and Economic Recovery of Spain after Covid-19, CEFI has compiled a series of observations and/or proposals for change with the aim of contributing to […]
The European Council has reached a historic agreement on a EUR 750 billion package for rebuilding the European economy following the COVID-19 pandemic: EUR 390 billion in direct aid and EUR 360 billion in loans. Spain will receive EUR 140 billion. It is cause for celebration that we have a budget settlement and funding to […]
BIOSIMILAR AND GENERIC DRUGS With the document of statements, the CEFI Foundation analyses each of the specific measures proposed in the Plan in detail but, in general, it believes that in the draft of the plan, the basic principles of health protection, physicians’ freedom to prescribe and patients’ right to be prescribed the best medicine […]
CEFI, as a member of the Interministerial Commission to act against activities which infringe intellectual and industrial property rights, backs the institutional anti-counterfeiting campaign carried out by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism together with the Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Office. This campaign is included in the Spanish government’s 2019 Annual Advertising and […]
Farmaindustria has published an interesting decalogue on the value of brands. It is important to strengthen the role of brands as industrial property and business assets that strengthen competitiveness in the market and inform us about their attributes. They highlight the main points: The prescribing physician may prescribe by brand in accordance with current legislation. […]
