Antimonopoly Committee Submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers its Proposals based on the Outcomes of Ukrainian Pharma Market Survey

On 25.10.2016, the AMCU conducted a meeting where it presented a Report on how all stages of medicinal products marketing influence competition and pricing starting from products’ registration to their sale to end consumer. The document highlights the issues of pharma markets operation, the reasons for unworkable competition emergence on these markets, proposes the remedies for the basis of competition law violations by market players and regulators.

Based on market survey the AMCU made a decision to apply to the CMU with the proposal to assign the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Finance and other authorities to draft the following policies:

• Implementation of reference pricing for the required medicinal products;
• Implementation of the regulations on electronic registers of patients according to disease types being treated for the state (local) budgets;
• Gradual transfer to the implementation of the reimbursement system;
• Implementation of compulsory social health insurance;
• Introduction of «medical service» definition into the legislation for further implementation of health insurance;
• Establishment of transparent relations in the area of medicinal products promotion and marketing taking into consideration the European experience;
• Consider the opportunities for the amendment of Licensing Requirements to business activities on the manufacture of medicinal products, wholesale and retail trade of medicinal products, import of medicinal products (except active pharmaceutical ingredients) regarding the revision of certain requirements to the licensees warehouses.