Spain
Industry
As established under the reforms to Spain's Medicines Law in 2006, reimbursed medicines with the same active ingredient and mode of administration, and which have at least one generic...
2010-01-20Industry
The Spanish pharmaceuticals market is among the top five in Europe and the top 10 in the world by value. It has grown strongly in recent years, outperforming the majority of others...
2009-12-14Industry
Spanish drugmaker Faes Farma has signed an agreement with Laboratorios Cinfa for the joint marketing and distribution of generic drugs in Portugal. BMI commends the focus of the partnership...
2009-11-25Industry
Highlighting Spain as having one of the lowest levels of generic medicines uptake in Europe, the country's generic medicine industry association, AESEG, has put forward key recommendations...
2009-10-26Industry
With the aim of increasing government revenues (to cover the growth in public sector spending as a recession grips Spain) and decrease its budget deficit (forecast to equal to 8.1%...
2009-10-13Industry
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said that EU antitrust regulators must reconsider their decision that drugmakers that prevent traders from exploiting price differences across...
2009-10-08Industry
Iceland-based generic drugs manufacturer Actavis has launched a generic version of Pfizer's drug Lipitor (atorvastatin) in Spain. BMI believes that the launch of the off-patent cholesterol...
2009-10-06Industry
BMI calculates the Spanish over-the-counter (OTC) medicines market to have reached a value of EUR2.0bn (US$2.9bn) in 2008. By 2013 we expect this figure to reach EUR2.5bn (US$3.2bn),...
2009-10-02
