BRUSSELS THREATENS LEGAL ACTION OVER FAKE MEDICINE DIRECTIVE FAILURES
December 5th, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to take legal action against Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Finland unless they demonstrate by January 20 how they will comply with the European Union’s (EU) falsified medicine directive. They were supposed to have implemented written the law (directive 2011/62/EU) into their national legislation by January 2 earlier this year (2012). It aims to prevent counterfeit medicines from reaching patients, laying down harmonised, pan-European safety and control measures, easing the identification of fakes, tightening controls at the ...
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