The authorities refused from the idea to sell drugs in stores
The Federal government stopped a bill allowing the sale of OTC drugs in food retail outlets, writes " Kommersant ".
The twenty-2nd June, the Department of social development government sent a letter to several ministries and departments, as well as among them the Ministry of health and Ministry of industry and trade, about the fact that the issue of a normative act it was reported to Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova. A copy of the document is at the publication.
then the question was removed from government surveillance. Commissioner Golikova Sofia Malyavina said the newspaper that the public comment process the draft law has received a lot of negative feedback and the Ministry he appealed to the government initiative to stop the work on the document. The Ministry of industry and trade to request the newspaper did not respond.
The Ministry has developed a draft law at the end of last year on behalf of the former first Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. It has been argued that the implementation of OTC products in stores will increase their level of availability, writes the print edition. In addition, the Ministry considered that while the established monopoly of pharmaceutical and medical organizations with the exclusive right to sale of medicines, the implementation of OTC drugs in stores prostimulirujte the development of competition and will reduce prices for certain categories of drugs.
The initial version of the document allowed the retailers to sell OTC drugs in the presence of a corresponding license. To her it would be possible for a legal entity regardless of the number of points. Later, the Ministry of industry and trade finalized the draft proposing to grant trade organization the right to sell OTC drugs at all without a license.
The interviewed players of the pharmaceutical market have linked the abolition of the development of the bill, specifically with the departure from the government, Shuvalov, who promoted this idea in 2014. In parallel, the Cabinet has returned the former Minister of health and social development Tatyana Golikova. As informs magazine, the Commissioners of the pharmaceutical industry to cherish the hope that the government will not return to the sale of drugs in grocery retail.