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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10870

20 June 2013
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
Lundbeck and other pharma companies fined

Brussels, 19/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 19 June, the European Commission imposed a fine of €93.8 million on Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck and fines totalling €52.2 million on several producers of generic medicines. In 2002, Lundbeck agreed with each of these companies to delay the market entry of cheaper generic versions of Lundbeck's branded citalopram, a blockbuster antidepressant. These agreements violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit anticompetitive...

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