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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10124
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

Public authorities may offer doctors financial incentives to prescribe cheaper medicines

Brussels, 22/04/2010 (Agence Europe) - In a judgment handed down on Thursday 22 April, the EU Court of Justice said that public authorities may offer financial incentives to induce doctors to prescribe cheaper medicinal products. However, the Court said that those authorities were required, first, to ensure that the incentive scheme is based on non-discriminatory objective criteria and, second, to make public, inter alia, the therapeutic evaluations relating to the scheme. This was the...

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