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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9877

7 April 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Member States may reduce the price of medicines more than once a year to ensure balanced healthcare system

Brussels, 06/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling published on Thursday 2 April 2009 (Case C-352/07 et al), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that member states may reduce medicinal product prices more than once a year on the basis of predicted expenditure. In other words, member states are allowed to manage their social security systems and the use of medicines to ensure financial balance in their health insurance systems.

In 2005 and 2006, the Italian Medicines Agency (Agenzia...

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