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Medical suppliers may coordinate to avoid shortages, EU antitrust guidance says

By Michael Acton
  • 08 Apr 2020 06:16
  • 08 Apr 2020 06:41

Pharmaceutical and other companies may coordinate their activities to address potential medical supply shortages in certain circumstances during the Covid-19 pandemic, even where this would usually breach antitrust rules, the European Commission has said.

A new Temporary Framework Communication “is meant to provide antitrust guidance to companies willing to temporarily coopera

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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