Handbook for pharmacies is still pending

The Superintendency of Market Power Control (SCPM for its Spanish acronym) will be ablle to issue rules in order to regulate business practices only with the approval of the Adjustment Board of the Market Power Control Law, ” subjet to a report of the Permanent Secretariat,” according to a resolution of the Board last December 24 .

About the new instructive for the sales and/or marketing field through independent sellers, it said it is clarified that companies can not demand exclusivity to these partners. Moreover, a preliminary version was made “to arm consensus.”

Pedro Páez, superintendent of the sector, said that the provision slowed the implementation of the Handbook of good commercial practices for pharmaceutical establishments that should have been issued this January 5, because the Board hasnot yet issued an opinion.