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CJEU AG opinion: pharmaceutical company has EU VAT refund rights following ex lege payments to state health insurance body
On June 6, 2024, the Advocate General (AG) at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered an opinion in case C-248/23 involving Novo Nordisk AS. The case pertains to the ex lege contributions paid by the pharmaceutical company to Hungary's state health insurance body, which subsidizes the retail sale of medicinal products in the country. The AG concluded that these contributions are effectively price reductions, entitling the pharmaceutical company to VAT refund rights. Why...
June 18, 2024
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Developments in the Netherlands on preventing unwanted...
On 8 April 2024, the Dutch Minister of Medical Care (the
April 30, 2024
6 min read
Circular economy: what impact for healthcare playe...
Environmental awareness and the desire to limit or eliminate...
September 28, 2023
6 min read
AI and the life sciences, navigating the complex legal...
Bird & Bird’s international life sciences and healthcare...
August 10, 2023
5 min read
AI as a Medical Device
To add to all the chatter about AI, let's talk about AI as a medical device. Last...
May 22, 2023
3 min read
Proposed updates to the regulation of medical devices
While it might be challenging for manufacturers of medical devices to navigate the evolving regulations...
May 10, 2023
3 min read
The Impact of the NIS2 Directive and the CER Directive for Medical Device Manufacturers and the Healthcare Sector
The rise in the volume of cyber incidents, the war in Ukraine, and the recent pandemic, has increased...
February 17, 2023
9 min read
Update on the UK’s future medical device regulations: Extended timelines
The UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recently announced the introduction...
October 31, 2022
2 min read
The Activation of Payback on Medical Devices
The Italian Ministry of Health, in a Decree dated 6 July 2022, certified the overrun of the expenditure...
October 7, 2022
1 min read
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