{"id":29726,"date":"2017-02-02T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/?p=29726"},"modified":"2017-02-15T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T12:03:35","slug":"pitruzzella-aziende-farmaco-necessaria-la-prevedibilita-dei-comportamenti-antitrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/pitruzzella-aziende-farmaco-necessaria-la-prevedibilita-dei-comportamenti-antitrust\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitruzzella: &quot;Predictability of antitrust behavior is necessary for drug companies&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome, 2 February - Knowing the guidelines and rules of antitrust conduct is a fundamental element for the pharmaceutical company sector: that is, it is important \u00a0<em>&quot;trace elements of predictability as much as possible, since a context of stability of the rules and predictability of the legal consequences of behavior is a priority for companies&quot;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was stated yesterday, reports an Ansa note, by the president of the Competition and Market Authority, <strong>John Pitruzzella<\/strong> <em>(pictured right)<\/em> speaking in Rome at the conference <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.key4biz.it\/files\/000274\/00027498.jpg\" alt=\"Risultati immagini per giovanni pitruzzella\" width=\"391\" height=\"223\" \/><em>\u201cAntitrust and the pharmaceutical industry: dialogue on the new challenges of competitiveness\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the pharmaceutical sector, observed Pitruzzella, <em>\u201cthere is an unavoidable tension between the protection of competition and intellectual property rights, but the central problem is precisely how to keep together intellectual property, legal monopoly and, on the other hand, the protection of competition. This is an issue that needs to be addressed by considering the predictability of antitrust behavior.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>In fact, the public system, said the Agcm president, &quot;<em>it must not give space to primacies but must be a unitary system, ensuring the certainty of the rules&quot;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The president of Farmindustria, <strong>Massimo Scaccabarozzi<\/strong>, reiterated that for the Pharma the quality of regulation is one of the most important competitive factors. To outline policies favorable to investments, therefore, &quot;<em>the first need is that of the stability and certainty of the regulatory framework&quot;<\/em>, to achieve which it is crucial &quot;<em>an open and constant dialogue between institutions, public administration and drug companies, in full respect of the roles\u201d.<br \/>\n<\/em>For Scaccabarozzi, therefore, a clear and stable framework of rules is needed, a new system of <em>governance <\/em>\u00a0<em>&quot;that satisfies all the components of the supply chain, including the Regions, always on a war footing due to the need to make ends meet&quot;.<\/em>\u00a0 Above all, we need to focus on new contractual instruments - basically argued the president of Farmindustria - for risk sharing between the State that buys and the industries that sell, since the old contracting systems are not able to identify adequate answers to the problems raised by the irruption on the market of new high-cost innovative drugs, which risk blowing up the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The DG of Aifa reserved some consideration for the issue of the reimbursement of innovative products <strong>Mario Melazzini<\/strong>, supporting the need to develop more and more the tool of <em>managed entry agreements<\/em>, forms of contract ranging from <em>payment by result<\/em> to the <em>cost sharing<\/em> And <em>risk sharing<\/em>. For Melazzini, however, the monitoring registers must above all be used more and better: <em>&quot;In my opinion they are very effective, because they allow appropriateness and also feedback on actual consumption&quot;<\/em> said DG Aifa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sanita24.ilsole24ore.com\/images2014\/Editrice\/ILSOLE24ORE\/QUOTIDIANO_SANITA\/Online\/ImmaginiWeb\/_Personaggi\/melazzini.jpg\" alt=\"Risultati immagini per Mario Melazzini aifa\" width=\"353\" height=\"243\" \/>Another fundamental issue is the determination of the requirements of innovation, which must be identified and fixed by March, as envisaged by the Stability Law. which assigns two funds of 500 million euros for these products and for oncologicals.<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;Certainly the deadline will be respected because the AIFA Technical-Scientific Commission is doing an excellent job&quot;<\/em> guaranteed Melazzini, thus giving what is to all intents and purposes news and declaring himself sure that the new requisites will respond to objective criteria and will make it possible to make the use of innovative medicines increasingly efficient and effective.<\/p>\n<p>Melazzini also wanted to recall that Aifa is &quot;<em>the Regulatory Authority that manages to negotiate the lowest prices ever and this is one of our objectives, but we call all industry leaders to great social responsibility.<\/em><em>Our national health service<\/em> added the DG of the national regulatory agency \u201c<em>has 113 billion. We have almost 30 billion in pharmaceutical spending with a reimbursement of 78%. This means offering everyone everything there is and what they need\u201d.<br \/>\n<\/em>However, he pointed out, <em>\u201cThere is a question of timing and we have to face it: from when we admit a drug to when that drug reaches the patient we are still too slow. Therefore, we must speed up the process, give efficiency, because behind an expected drug there is a patient waiting. This is our goal.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, Melazzini added, <em>\u201cthanks to Minister Lorenzin who set up the Fund for Innovative Medicines we have a great opportunity; however, we must establish what is truly innovative and we must do it according to certain parameters\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A final appeal, then, to the Regions: \u201c<em>They must be our partners so that in every area every citizen can benefit uniformly from the new drugs arriving. The lack of homogeneity with which the major health initiatives are in fact applied in the various local realities<\/em> \u2013 concluded the director general of AIFA \u2013 <em>penalizes the value of Italian healthcare, which is among the best in the world\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"meta_author vcard author\"><span class=\"fn\"><a title=\"Articles written by: RIFday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rifday.it\/author\/rifday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">RIFday<\/a><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"meta_date updated\">&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifday.it\/2017\/02\/02\/pitruzzella-aziende-farmaco-necessaria-la-prevedibilita-dei-comportamenti-antitrust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">February 02, 2017 \u2013 RIFday<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related news:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.regioni.it\/sanita\/2017\/02\/01\/farmaci-aifa-chiamiamo-industria-a-responsabilita-sociale-497432\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Medicines: Aifa, we call industry to social responsibility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/formiche.net\/2017\/02\/02\/farmindustria-aifa-agcm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What is said between Farmindustria, Aifa and Antitrust<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/formiche.net\/thumb\/580x950\/2017\/02\/10051\/ac\/zc1\/q100\/IMG_0488-1-e1486027873128.jpg\" alt=\"Che cosa si dice fra Farmindustria, Aifa e Antitrust\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roma, 2 febbraio \u2013 \u00a0Conoscere linee di indirizzo e regole dei comportamenti antitrust \u00e8 un elemento fondamentale per il settore delle aziende farmaceutiche: \u00e8 importante, cio\u00e8, \u00a0\u201ctracciare quanto pi\u00f9 possibile elementi di prevedibilit\u00e0, dal momento che per le imprese \u00e8 prioritario un contesto di stabilit\u00e0 delle regole e di prevedibilit\u00e0 delle conseguenze giuridiche dei comportamenti\u201d. &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,50],"class_list":["post-29726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notizie","tag-aifa","tag-farmindustria"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}