Tagged with Regulation,

Sweden The Life Sciences Office Sweden was commissioned in February 2018 and is modelled on the UK’s Office for Life Sciences. Jenni Nordborg, the Office’s director and national coordinator, discusses the future of the life sciences sector in Sweden, including digitalization and collaborations with other Nordic nations.   I believe in…

Taiwan Yu-Ih Hou, mayor of New Taipei City, introduces the city and highlights its key competitive advantages and strategic direction of growth as Taiwan’s top economic and cultural destination.   Over one-fourth of Taiwan’s biomedical industry is based in the greater Taipei community – most of which are small companies carrying…

Croatia Lawyer Ira Perić Ostojić highlights recent regulatory updates in Croatia, where the legal status of cultivating and producing cannabis for medical purposes has been liberalised.   On 25 April 2019 the Amendments to the Act on Combating Drugs Abuse entered into force in Croatia, which liberalizes the cultivation and production…

Lithuania Ruta Pumputiene examines recent regulatory reform in Lithuania, as the Baltic nation attempts to introduce a holistic HTA mechanism for the evaluation of what to include on the country’s reimbursable medicines list.   It is not yet clear whether the new procedure will complicate and damage Lithuanian patients’ access to…

Opinion The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy-Making Act, recently signed into law in the USA, stands to make government data more accessible; thereby allowing researchers, statisticians and others inside and outside of government to make better, and evidenced-based, policy decisions. Carla Smith outlines the scope of the Act and its potential implications…

India Aditya Bhattacharji is Healthcare Practice Head at Eurasia Group. In this article, he looks at India’s ambitious healthcare insurance scheme, “Modicare” and delves into some of its critical challenges and associated opportunities for private players.   In theory, India’s states will be able to fine tune Modicare’s implementation to meet their…

Spain Teresa Chavarria Gimenez, director general of planning, research and training at the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid, highlights her role and the BioMad initiative as they look to position Madrid on the European and global biotech map.   We want to facilitate the collaboration of the public…

Egypt On Tuesday, February 12th, Pharmaboardroom attended a breakfast event hosted by the British Egyptian Business Association (BEBA) on competition law at the Cairo Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel. The theme for the event was competition law and its application in the Egyptian market, with the topic being introduced through a speech by…

France Abbvie France’s Pierre-Claude Fumoleau outlines his strategic priorities for the affiliate, AbbVie’s unique corporate culture and ethos, and how he envisions upcoming regulatory reforms playing out in France.   We are still a very young company… and that means that we are still very much in the process of constructing…

Spain María Jesús Lamas, director and César Hernández García, head of medicines for human use at the Spanish Agency of Medicine and Health Products (AEMPS), discuss the challenges impacting the evaluation and analysis of products today. Furthermore, they give insights into why Spain is a leading global clinical trials destination and…

France The healthcare and life sciences industries, as they become more advanced and complex, increasingly require government involvement to ensure clinical compliance, ethical behaviour and the well-being of the nation. The health sector is subject to mounting regulatory pressures meaning politics must play a key role. As we advance more and more in healthcare…

France On February 4 in Paris, Minister of Health and Solidarity Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal, Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance Agnès Pannier-Runacher, and President of the Healthcare Industry Strategic Committee (CSF) and Chairman of the French Federation of Health…