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French Supreme Administrative Court decision significantly broadens the scope of the French Sunshine Act

A decision of the French Supreme Administrative Court (Conseil d’Etat) dated 24 February 2015 has significantly broadened the scope of the French ‘Sunshine Act’: Whereas initially health care companies were only obliged to disclose the existence of agreements with health care professionals (HCPs), they will now also be required to disclose the remuneration of French … Continue Reading

A Brave New World? The “French Sunshine Act” imposes online disclosure of contracts with HCPs, as well as of payments of “advantages” to HCPs, dating back to 01 January 2012

In probably one the longest-awaited decrees in recent French regulation, the French Ministry of Health published on 22 May 2013, the application decree to the French Sunshine Act (dated 29 December 2011) implementing the specific ways and means that health care companies must disclose agreements with health care practitioners (“HCPs”), a term that includes medical … Continue Reading

‘Sunshine Act’ à la française adopted on 29 December 2011. Healthcare and cosmetics companies will be subject to a tough transparency regulation in France

A new rule, adopted on 29 December 2011 and published on 30 December 2011 after an unusually expedited procedure due to strong government pressure, will heavily modify the regulatory framework in which healthcare companies, but also to some extent cosmetics companies, operate in France. Besides replacing (next August, but the law has immediately been enforced) … Continue Reading
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