Anti Monopoly Committee of Ukraine Notes: Devil Hides in Marketing Agreements
On 05.11.2015 AMCU initiated a meeting of the working group on competition development in pharmaceutical sector. Representatives of state authorities (AMCU, Ministry of Health, State Expert Center), professional associations (Association of Market Operators of Medical Devices, EBA, Professional Pharmacy Association of Ukraine, Ukrainian Pharmaceutical Chamber, AIPM) and AMCU public council participated in this meeting.
During the meeting the participants discussed mainly the issues of medicinal products retail organization by the pharmacies, and the peculiarities of marketing agreements being concluded between pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy networks. In particular, AMCU raised an issue of possible negative influence of such agreements on the competition in the market.
As previously, the cornerstone issue of the discussion between AMCU and the pharmacies representatives was the definition of the subject of marketing agreement and the calculation of service costs being provided in accordance with such agreement.
As a result of fruitful discussion between the working group members AMCU announced the decision to provide additional amendments to its Recommendations for pharmaceutical market players on the contents of marketing agreements and cost calculation of marketing services being rendered to the pharmacies.
Relevant AMCU explanations for business representatives may be expected by the end of November 2015.
