BRUSSELS THREATENS ITALY WITH COURT ACTION OVER GENERIC DRUG AUTHORISATIONS
February 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Italy with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over a restriction it imposes on generic drug manufacturers. Italian law prevents them from filing marketing authorisation requests before the penultimate year of a patent's expiry which Brussels says breaks EU genetic medicine legislation. "As a result of this law, and of the lengthy procedure to secure the authorisation for marketing, manufacturers of generic products are placed at a disadvantage," said a Commission note. ...
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