EU Anti-Competition Crackdown Boosts Access To Affordable Drugs, Commission Finds

A report from the European Commission highlights how the enforcement of pharmaceutical antitrust rules between 2018 and 2022 increased the availability of fairly priced innovative medicines in the bloc.

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The European Commission and national competition authorities imposed fines exceeding €780m ($846m) in relation to 26 cases of pharmaceutical product anti-competitive practices between 2018 and 2022, a new report from the commission has revealed.

These sanctions were made for a variety of reasons, including the misuse of the EU drug patent system to prolong...

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