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Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade
7 February - 8 February 2011
Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade

Parallel trade of pharmaceuticals in the European Union has grown consistently despite numerous challenges from some of the industry’s biggest players. The principles of free movement of goods and the regional exhaustion of intellectual property rights have helped parallel traders to make millions and the European Court of Justice has consistently ruled in their favour on cases relating to trademark issues. In response, pharmaceutical companies are now looking towards other ways of addressing parallel trade.

SAE Media Group’s 5th annual Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade conference will feature a variety of informational presentations from expert speakers with differing opinions and perspectives to offer. There will be an emphasis on the importance of effective supply chain management and pricing strategy as well as insights in to the impact of direct-to-pharmacy distribution and recent competition law developments.

  

 

Birgit Beger
Secretary-General
Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
Phillip O'Neill
Head of Information and Analysis
Office of Health Economics, UK

 

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration and coffee

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9:00

What is parallel trade, when should it be managed and how?

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9:45

Learn how to quantify the impact of trade within a region

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10:30

The impact on profits and prices: do healthcare systems benefit from the trade?

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11:00

Morning Coffee

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11:15

What have been the responses of the manufacturers to parallel trade?

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12:00

How does a supply chain strategy work in reducing parallel trade?

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12:30

Why, with the industries help, the European Commission should ban parallel trade?

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13:00

Close of Workshop

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8:30

Registration and coffee

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9:00

Chairman's opening remarks

Jim Thomson

Jim Thomson, Chair, European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines

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9:10

From import to export: Parallel trade in the UK

Phill O'Neill

Phill O'Neill, Consultant, Office Of Health Economics

  • Past/current trends in parallel importing/exporting
  • Impact on the British public healthcare system
  • Future implications
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    9:50

    Critique of direct-to-pharmacy/reduced wholesaler models in Europe

  • Exclusive and supplementary direct-to-pharmacy distribution schemes in EU
  • Wholesaler rationalisation in EU
  • Case studies from UK, France, Germany and Poland
  • Manufacturers' aims, wholesalers and pharmacists response
  • What has been achieved?
  • Donald Macarthur

    Donald Macarthur, Global Pharmaceutical Business Analyst, JustPharmaReports

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    10:30

    Morning coffee

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    11:00

    Parallel trade: Solutions offered by competition law

    Axel Schulz

    Axel Schulz, Partner, White & Case LLP

  • Stock management systems, free pricing or direct-to-pharmacy?
  • Stock management systems in practice: issues such as measuring national demand, new entrants, allocations
  • Free pricing in practice: how to structure and set up the system.
  • Direct-to-pharmacy in practice: logistic service providers, tenders and emergency supplies
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    11:40

    The calm before the storm: Be prepared for the pharmaceutical package

    Jim Thomson

    Jim Thomson, Chair, European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines

  • Where the legislation right now and what is the timeframe for implementation?
  • Why is it important to preserve as well as to strengthen the proposals?
  • The patient's role in making these proposals a success
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    12:20

    Networking lunch

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    14:30

    Parallel trade: A pharmacy contractor’s view

    Harry McQuillan

    Harry McQuillan, Chief Executive Officer, Community Pharmacy Scotland

  • Effect on the NHS
  • Availability of product
  • Effect on contractors’ income
  • Export vs. Import – the ethical debate
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    15:10

    Afternoon tea

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    15:40

    PANEL DISCUSSION - Does parallel trade generate worthwhile savings?

    Donald Macarthur

    Donald Macarthur, Global Pharmaceutical Business Analyst, JustPharmaReports

    Phill O'Neill

    Phill O'Neill, Consultant, Office Of Health Economics

    Harry McQuillan

    Harry McQuillan, Chief Executive Officer, Community Pharmacy Scotland

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    16:20

    Putting patient safety first

    Birgit Beger

    Birgit Beger, Secretary-General, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)

  • Committing to patient safety
  • Combating counterfeit medicines
  • EU added value
  • Future outlook
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    17:00

    Chairman’s closing remarks and close of day one

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    8:30

    Re-registration and coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's opening remarks

    David Hull

    David Hull, Partner, Covington & Burling

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    9:10

    Improvement of healthcare by banning repackaging of medicines by traders

    Dermot Glynn

    Dermot Glynn, Chairman, Europe Economics

  • The harm repackaging causes and how it leads to unsafe medicines
  • Effect on pricing
  • Unnecessary transportation costs
  • How it facilitates counterfeiting
  • Evidence needed from patent holders
  • Economic analysis needed from EU policymakers
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    9:50

    Parallel Trade: the third legitimate market player in Poland since 2005

    Tomasz Dzitko

    Tomasz Dzitko, Founder and CEO , Delfarma

  • The economics of parallel trade in Poland
  • Additional layer of safety in securing the integrity of distribution chain
  • There is no parallel trade without savings
  • The future of parallel trade in Poland from the importer's perspective
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Parallel exports from the UK

    Tim Frazer

    Tim Frazer, EU and UK Competition Law Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

  • Supply-chain design by UK pharmaceutical companies
  • The production of evidence of patient needs
  • The Intecare Direct vs. Pfizer judgment
  • The UK government’s approach to product shortage issues
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    11:40

    PANNEL DISCUSSION - Issues in competition law: theoretical and practical perspectives

    Janice Haigh

    Janice Haigh, Senior Director Europe Price & Trade, Astellas Pharma Europe

    Tim Frazer

    Tim Frazer, EU and UK Competition Law Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

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    12:20

    Networking lunch

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    13:50

    The pharmaceutical industry’s response to parallel trade

    Fabrizio Gianfrate

    Fabrizio Gianfrate, Professor of Health Economics, University of Ferrara

  • Impact of Parallel Trade on Pharmaceutical Industry
  • The long term effects of parallel trade on R&D investments
  • The countermeasures of pharmaceutical industries
  • Evolution and next scenarios of strategies
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    14:30

    Economic evidence and standard of proof in the GSK and AstraZeneca cases

    Despoina Mantzari

    Despoina Mantzari, Research Fellow, Jevons Institute of Competition Law and Economics

  • Economic and empirical studies on the effect of parallel trade on consumers and sustainable development
  • European Court's approach to Parallel Trade
  • Reasons why the courts may not fully embrace the economists approach to parallel trade
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    15:10

    EU member states approach to parallel trade restrictions

    Héctor Armengod

    Héctor Armengod, Associate Attorney, Latham & Watkins LLP

  • Recent competition law developments at the Member State level
  • Reliance on guidance from the European Courts (General Court and the Court of Justice)
  • Divergent interpretations of the law
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    15:50

    Chairman’s closing remarks & Afternoon Tea

    Workshops

    Making Sense of Parallel Trade

    Making Sense of Parallel Trade

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