"We appreciate the statements made by Minister Passera on drug liberalization and we hope as soon as possible that the right path will be taken to make this reform real". This was stated by the president of the national forum of parapharmacies, Giuseppe Scioscia, according to whom «if the Government really wants to reopen the game of liberalizations, and Minister Passera's words in this sense are unequivocal, the shot must be adjusted as soon as possible: Article 32, as it stands, is unenforceable". Scioscia explains that the parapharmacies are "available immediately at a meeting to offer the Government an exact picture of the state of the art, also in order to avoid incurring in a false liberalization as happened with the imposed limit of 12,500 inhabitants". To this end, the number one of the parapharmacy forum invites the government on the "possibility of reversing the course of the latest economic maneuver", landed in the Senate for definitive approval, "by inserting in the milleproroghe those regulations on drugs that have been scuttled overnight » in the House Budget and Finance Committee. «The government» concludes Scioscia «must think about the entire sector of drug distribution and reform an archaic system which provides that a state concession, won by competition, can be inherited from father to son and whose legislation dates back to 1936, net naturally of the legislation introduced by the then Minister Bersani, thanks to which parapharmacies exist today".
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