Australia Relaxes Competition Rules To Facilitate Coronavirus Response

Generic And Brand Industry Bodies Team Up To Tackle COVID-19

 
• By David Wallace
  
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Australia’s competition regulator, the ACCC, has granted a conditional dispensation to allow generics industry association the GBMA and brand body Medicines Australia to work together to help address the coronavirus pandemic by sharing information on stock, inventory, manufacturing and the supply chain. However, tender pricing will not be among the subjects discussed.

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The ACCC has relaxed the rules around competition in Australia to allow the collaboration • Source: Shutterstock

A “conditional interim authorization” to allow generic and brand industry associations in Australia to work together to share information on stock levels, inventory, manufacturing and the supply chain as part of efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic has been granted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. However, discussions of tender pricing will not be included among the permitted conduct.

Australia’s originator body Medicines Australia had on 27 March applied to the ACCC seeking authorization for an initial six-month period...

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