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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11501

1 March 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health
Access to medicines - prices and differentiated tariffs examined

Brussels, 29/02/2016 (Agence Europe) -An external study published at the end of 2015 by the European Commission recommends member states to improve their comparative external prices (CEP) systems. According to the Austrian Planning and Research Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH), this system does allow for savings to be made but does not, however, have any real impact on access to medicines.

The 260-page study, of which a summary was published on Wednesday 24 February, focuses on...

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