By Editorial board on December 6, 2012
The shares due to wholesalers and pharmacies, as regards generics, have been established by law since 2009.
“Once again we have to register some confusion in the arguments with which Farm industry he argues against the statute of limitations rules introduced in the spendig review. In particular,” says the president of AceGenerici, Giorgio Foresti, “the issue of discounts to intermediate distribution and pharmacists is used in a way that is opposite to reality. The margins due to the wholesaler and the pharmacy, as regards i medicines generics, are fixed by law and therefore there is an absolute prohibition to apply extra discounts, and this since the times of the so-called Abruzzo Decree of 2009, for all generics reimbursed by the National Health Service. We do not know that this rule applies to specialties under patent or which have enjoyed patent protection. For AssoGenerici, therefore, the thesis that the law favors companies that can afford to retain the supply chain with discounts is totally unfounded.
