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Parallel Trade 2021 (Virtual Conference)
22 March - 23 March 2021

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Parallel Trade 2021 (Virtual Conference)

SAE Media Group’s 15th Annual Conference
Parallel Trade 
March 22-23, 2021 | Virtual Conference
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SAE Media Group presents its 15th annual Parallel Trade virtual conference on the 22nd and the 23rd March 2021. As the only parallel trade conference in Europe, this event provides the perfect platform for industry experts from both sides of the coin to come together and share perspectives on the practice of parallel trade.

The 2021 event will be more significant than ever before due to the transition period after Brexit coming to an end. As such, the UK will no longer be part of the EU free market. This will mean increased medicines prices, reduced access to some specialist drugs and greater risk of supply chain shortages. In a post-Brexit environment, exhaustion of rights will cease to apply to the UK, making import and export a costly business and in a worst-case scenario could effectively kill parallel distribution.

This conference will bring together industry experts to discuss the challenges and drivers of the industry, including the EU regulatory landscape and the impact of the FMD (Falsified Medicines Directive). The conference will also provide global insights on Parallel trade and will reflect on key takeaways for other member states.


 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Beatriz San Martin

Beatriz San Martin

Partner, Arnold & Porter
Christopher Stothers

Christopher Stothers

Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Eric Noehrenberg

Eric Noehrenberg

President , NIPC
Jackie Mulryne

Jackie Mulryne

Partner - Life Science Regulatory, Arnold & Porter
Jan Grumiller

Jan Grumiller

Research Scientist, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE)
Kasia Bojarojc

Kasia Bojarojc

Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Martin Slegl

Martin Slegl

Regional Principal of East Europe, IQVIA
Peter Bogaert

Peter Bogaert

Managing Partner, Covington & Burling
Soeren Brenoee

Soeren Brenoee

Senior Economist, Copenhagen Economics
Tine Petric

Tine Petric

Head Channel Management RE, Novartis Pharma AG
Vimal Unewal

Vimal Unewal

Senior Manager In Market Supply Europe, Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Beatriz San Martin

Partner, Arnold & Porter
Beatriz San Martin

Beatriz San Martin focuses her practice on the life sciences sector and innovative technologies. She has significant experience handling cases before the UK Courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union, including high-profile European litigation. In addition to her patent and SPC experience, she also counsels on and litigates other IP rights including copyright, trademark, passing off, design rights, database rights and confidential information. Her cases have involved a wide range of technologies including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, agrochemicals, insulation products, software, medical imaging and mosquito nets.

Christopher Stothers

Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Christopher Stothers

Christopher is a recognized expert in parallel trade, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical sector - his 2007 textbook, “Parallel Trade in Europe: Intellectual Property, Competition and Regulatory Law,” has been cited by the UK Supreme Court. Christopher is also an experienced litigator on cross-border patent disputes, other types of intellectual property, antitrust, pharmaceutical regulation, EU law and commercial disputes. He has taken cases before the First Tier Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal, the Patents County Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords, the Supreme Court, the European Patent Office, and the European Court of Justice.

Eric Noehrenberg

President , NIPC
Eric Noehrenberg

Farasat Bokhari

Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, UEA, University of East Anglia
Farasat Bokhari

Farasat Bokhari is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia. He is a health economist with a background in applied microeconomics and industrial organization, with a specialization in health policy. He has conducted research related to impact of public health financing on health outcomes as well as of other regulations on healthcare utilization. Dr. Bokhari’s research extends to competition and antitrust in the healthcare sector. His recent work is on welfare effects of new entrants, particularly of generic and follow-on (`me-too') drugs in the pharmaceutical markets. He has been active in studying firm strategies relating to pricing, launch of authorized generics, conducting pay-for-delay deals, and product differentiation and mergers and their impact on industry performance and structure.

Jackie Mulryne

Partner - Life Science Regulatory, Arnold & Porter
Jackie Mulryne

Jackie Mulryne advises clients in the life sciences and MedTech sectors, and has a broad practice providing regulatory compliance and public policy advice. She advises on UK and EU law, and has experience with a range of regulatory issues that arise throughout the product lifecycle. She regularly develops strategies to help bring innovative products to market, and has assisted a number of client in developing and implementing cross-border regulatory and compliance programmes.
Jackie also advises on contentious disputes in the sector, and has extensive experience in public and administrative law challenges to the decisions of regulatory bodies.

Jan Grumiller

Research Scientist, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE)
Jan Grumiller

Jan Grumiller is an economist at the Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE). His area of expertise includes global value chains, international trade and industrial policy. He recently conducted studies for the European Parliament and the Austrian Chamber of Labour on the resilience of medical and pharmaceutical supply chains and potentials for reshoring.

John Schmidt

Partner, Arnold and Porter
John Schmidt

John Schmidt leads the UK Competition team in London. He has over 25 years of experience dealing with competition authorities and courts in the UK and the EU and regularly advises on complex competition conduct issues, investigations, litigation, and merger cases. He is dual-qualified in the UK and Germany and has a particular focus on the life sciences.
Mr. Schmidt has extensive experience advising pharmaceutical and medical device companies on pricing matters, including a number of reverse payment patent settlement cases both at the EU and UK level. He secured a number of case closures without an infringement findings in a number of CMA’s pharma investigations and he has assisted a number of companies in unannounced investigations by competition authorities.
Mr. Schmidt has been consistently ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers UK ("very knowledgeable, easy to work with and adept at explaining complicated issues."), Chambers Europe, and Chambers Global, as well as The Legal 500.

Kasia Bojarojc

Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Kasia Bojarojc

Kasia is a senior associate in Freshfields’ London antitrust, competition and trade practice group. Kasia previously worked as an associate in the Brussels office for four years, having completed a stage at the European Commission’s DG Competition. Kasia has also completed an in-house secondment with a multinational financial services client.
Kasia’s practice covers EU and UK competition law, including merger control and foreign investment antitrust, cartels, abuse of dominance and state aid. Kasia acts across a broad range of sectors as well as running the firm’s antitrust associate-led sector group focused on energy, infrastructure and regulated industries.
 

Martin Slegl

Regional Principal of East Europe, IQVIA
Martin Slegl

Martin has over 9 years experience in the area of management consulting, he was leading South East Europe consulting with IQVIA (10 countries). His current role is General Manager for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. His specialty is cross border trade and he has worked for a large number of HQs across Europe in different therapy areas. He has proven project experience across a variety of industries through Europe as he worked with Roland Berger and A.T. Kearney. Martin holds CEMS Master's in International Management and Master’s in Business Economics degrees from ESADE and University of Economics in Prague.

Peter Bogaert

Managing Partner, Covington & Burling
Peter Bogaert

Peter Bogaert

Managing Partner, Covington & Burling
Peter Bogaert

Peter Bogaert is a managing partner of the Brussels office, and has a broad European life sciences practice. He has detailed regulatory expertise under EU and national laws, handles legislative and other policy assignments and provides strategic advice. He also represents life sciences companies before the European Courts in Luxembourg and in local litigation in Belgium. Mr. Bogaert's practice covers pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, special foods and feed, cosmetics and other consumer products and he represents numerous innovative life sciences companies, including start-ups, as well as several industry associations.
Chambers Global notes that a client said “He is an extremely experienced professional with broad expertise and provides sensible and well-balanced solutions." He is consistently ranked by PLC as one of the leading life sciences lawyers globally and Legal 500 EMEA and Chambers Europe note Mr. Bogaert's prominent regulatory pharmaceutical and environmental practice. Legal 500 EMEA (2011) noted that he is "a superb lawyer who is very pleasant to work with." Mr. Bogaert regularly writes and speaks on life sciences issues. He is a founding member of the Brussels Pharma Law Group.

Robert Bayerl

Engagement Manager, IQVIA Commercial GmbH & Co. OHG
Robert Bayerl

Shabnam Hanassab

Engagement Manager, IQVIA
Shabnam Hanassab

IQVIA’s expert and thought leader in European Parallel Trade dynamics, supply chain and distribution with several years of experience working in this field. Shabnam has developed in-depth expertise in pharmaceutical market dynamics and the increasing complexities of the trading environment. Shabnam is highly experienced on IQVIA’s data types, coverage and various supply chain offerings available centrally as well as locally, working with network of people within and outside organization. She has led several European supply chain consulting projects in the past few years. Shabnam holds BSc, MSc and PhD from University of London in Pharmaceutical and Computational Chemistry.
 

Soeren Brenoee

Senior Economist, Copenhagen Economics
Soeren Brenoee

Søren is an economics advisor within the field of healthcare and life sciences. He is the author of The economic impact of parallel imports of pharmaceuticals, a Danish study from 2019. His expe-rience ranges from design of value-based healthcare and risk-sharing models, impact evaluation, value demonstration of products and activities as well as strategic advice in relation to regulation. Søren is part of Copenhagen Economics, which is one of the leading economics firms in Europe, operating from offices in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Brussels.

Tine Petric

Head Channel Management RE, Novartis Pharma AG
Tine Petric


Tine Petric has an in-depth knowledge on pharmaceutical parallel-trade with more than 6 years of hands-on experience in big Pharma. As Head of Channel Management at Novartis since 2017, Tine developed and implemented different commercial supply strategies across diverse European markets which contributed to minimizing impact of parallel trade on distribution costs and accessibility of medicinal products for patients. Before joining Channel management team, Tine was Head of business planning and analysis for South East Europe at Novartis, where he gained valuable experience in managing complex and diverse landscape of countries. Prior to joining Novartis, he held CFO positions in international manufacturing and power-exchange businesses.
Tine hold bachelor degree in international economics from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland.
 

Vimal Unewal

Senior Manager In Market Supply Europe, Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Vimal Unewal

Vimal Unewal is currently the Head of In-Market Supply for Ferring Pharmaceuticals, looking after the Parallel Trade across Europe. Vimal has 25 years of experience in supply chain and commercial across EMEA, Asian, Latin and North American markets for branded and generics pharmaceuticals, FMCG, and automotive. Vimal holds a B.Sc. in Business Management from University of Lisbon and a frequent speaker at supply chain conferences. Vimal lives in Berkshire (UK) and he’s interested in music and table tennis.

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Conference agenda

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9:00

Opening Remarks

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9:10

Intellectual Property and Free Movement

• Exhaustion of rights
• Repackaging of pharmaceuticals: the BMS conditions
• Recent case law and case study
 

Christopher Stothers

Christopher Stothers, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Kasia Bojarojc

Kasia Bojarojc, Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

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9:50

Competition Law

• Anti-competitive agreements and dominant positions
• Quotas and direct-to-pharmacy models
• Recent case law and case study
 

Christopher Stothers

Christopher Stothers, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Kasia Bojarojc

Kasia Bojarojc, Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

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10:30

Morning Coffee

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11:00

Regulatory Law

• Marketing authorisations
• Parallel import licences
• Recent case law and case study
 

Christopher Stothers

Christopher Stothers, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Kasia Bojarojc

Kasia Bojarojc, Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

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11:40

Covid-19 and Brexit

• How did Covid-19 affect the rules?
• How has Brexit affected the rules?
• Case study
 

Christopher Stothers

Christopher Stothers, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Kasia Bojarojc

Kasia Bojarojc, Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

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12:20

Closing Remarks

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13:30

Opening Remarks

Filippo Benetti

Filippo Benetti, Data Analytics Manager , Alira Health

Nerea Blanque

Nerea Blanque, Vice President Market Access and Pricing, Alira Health

Mark Inigo-Jones

Mark Inigo-Jones, Pharmaceutical Distribution & Parallel Trade Management Expert, Alira Health

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13:35

SESSION 1 : GETTING THE STRATEGY RIGHT

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13:40

Internal & external challenges faced by pharma companies

• Organisation, roles & support from key functions
• Performance Measurement
• Supporting services and key data
 

Filippo Benetti

Filippo Benetti, Data Analytics Manager , Alira Health

Nerea Blanque

Nerea Blanque, Vice President Market Access and Pricing, Alira Health

Mark Inigo-Jones

Mark Inigo-Jones, Pharmaceutical Distribution & Parallel Trade Management Expert, Alira Health

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14:00

Quantifying the business financial impact

• Reconciling imports with exports & why exports don’t match imports
• Getting to a complete picture
 

Filippo Benetti

Filippo Benetti, Data Analytics Manager , Alira Health

Nerea Blanque

Nerea Blanque, Vice President Market Access and Pricing, Alira Health

Mark Inigo-Jones

Mark Inigo-Jones, Pharmaceutical Distribution & Parallel Trade Management Expert, Alira Health

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14:20

Selecting right distribution model/considerations before launch

• Go to market including pricing strategy
• Distribution channels
• Other
 

Filippo Benetti

Filippo Benetti, Data Analytics Manager , Alira Health

Nerea Blanque

Nerea Blanque, Vice President Market Access and Pricing, Alira Health

Mark Inigo-Jones

Mark Inigo-Jones, Pharmaceutical Distribution & Parallel Trade Management Expert, Alira Health

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14:55

SESSION 2 : MASTERING THE EXECUTION

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15:00

Implementing a quota system in a country

• Case Study on Implementation
• What to anticipate
 

Filippo Benetti

Filippo Benetti, Data Analytics Manager , Alira Health

Nerea Blanque

Nerea Blanque, Vice President Market Access and Pricing, Alira Health

Mark Inigo-Jones

Mark Inigo-Jones, Pharmaceutical Distribution & Parallel Trade Management Expert, Alira Health

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15:20

Enhancing effectiveness with e-prescription data

• Two case Studies on using e-Prescription data to gain patient insights and enhance distribution effectiveness

 

Filippo Benetti

Filippo Benetti, Data Analytics Manager , Alira Health

Nerea Blanque

Nerea Blanque, Vice President Market Access and Pricing, Alira Health

Mark Inigo-Jones

Mark Inigo-Jones, Pharmaceutical Distribution & Parallel Trade Management Expert, Alira Health

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15:40

Parallel import sampling to support decision-making

• Designing a sampling survey and expected outcomes

Filippo Benetti

Filippo Benetti, Data Analytics Manager , Alira Health

Nerea Blanque

Nerea Blanque, Vice President Market Access and Pricing, Alira Health

Mark Inigo-Jones

Mark Inigo-Jones, Pharmaceutical Distribution & Parallel Trade Management Expert, Alira Health

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16:00

Q&A and Concluding Remarks

Filippo Benetti

Filippo Benetti, Data Analytics Manager , Alira Health

Nerea Blanque

Nerea Blanque, Vice President Market Access and Pricing, Alira Health

Mark Inigo-Jones

Mark Inigo-Jones, Pharmaceutical Distribution & Parallel Trade Management Expert, Alira Health

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9:00

Chair's Opening Remarks

Eric Noehrenberg

Eric Noehrenberg, President , NIPC

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9:10

Managing Parallel Trade: An innovator’s perspective

Eric Noehrenberg

Eric Noehrenberg, President , NIPC

• Parallel trade makes medicines more “affordable”, but for whom?
• Impact of parallel trade
• Management of challenges posed by parallel trade

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9:50

Understanding the exhaustion of IP rights

Christopher Stothers, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

• The traditional doctrine of EEA exhaustion
• Rebranding: Joined Cases C-253/20 and C-254/20 Impexeco / PI Pharma
• Exhaustion in Brexit Britain, now and in the future
 

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10:30

Morning Break

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11:00

Panel: Understanding how COVID-19 will continue to affect Parallel Trade

• Exploring how we have dealt with a shortage and restriction of medical products
• Examining how the supply chain has dealt with this shortage of products
• What has the export ban and the blocked movement of products meant for parallel trade?
• How are manufacturers going to supply during this period?
• Future implications?
 

Vimal Unewal, Senior Manager In Market Supply Europe, Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Tine Petric, Head Channel Management RE, Novartis Pharma AG

Eric Noehrenberg

Eric Noehrenberg, President , NIPC

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11:40

Analysing competition policies and Parallel trade

Kasia Bojarojc, Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

• Clear overview of the legal framework, whether as an introduction or refresher
• Practical and applied sessions using case studies
• Interactive workshop led by well-established practitioners
• Key takeaways of the Covid-19 and Brexit impact on the field

 

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12:20

Networking Break

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13:20

Case study: Pharma patent settlement

• IP strategy when considering a multijurisdictional patent settlement
• EU competition law implications and limitations in patent settlements
• Is it a battle between IP law vs competition law or do they seek achieve the same aims?
• Export bans/exhaustion/other restrictions/supply chains/Brexit and COVID
 

Beatriz San Martin, Partner, Arnold & Porter

John Schmidt, Partner, Arnold and Porter

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14:00

Product line extensions under the threat of entry: evidence from the UK pharmaceuticals market

Farasat Bokhari, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, UEA, University of East Anglia

• Do innovative firms increase product lines to deter entry, and if so, when is such a strategy successful?
• Using data from UK pharmaceuticals to examine how incumbents respond to change in the threat of entry
• Examining the originators’ product launch rate is higher when the risk of entry is moderate, but becomes lower when entry is very likely, and the effect is most pronounced in medium size markets
• Exploring that in medium size markets, originators can deny entry via proliferation if they fill the product space evenly across patients so that each variant has a significant market share of the originator’s drugs
• Understanding that this does not work in large markets, but here entry is deterred when originators engage in product hopping, i.e., shift most of the patients to newer variants of the drug that may still be protected by intellectual property
 

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14:40

Afternoon Break

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15:10

Status Quo on the German PI market – Effects of recent legislation changes (GSAV in 2019)

Robert Bayerl

Robert Bayerl, Engagement Manager, IQVIA Commercial GmbH & Co. OHG

• PI incentives in Europe's biggest market - short history overview and recent changes (GSAV)
• Effects on products recently excluded from legal incentives
• Future challenges for the German PI market
 

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15:50

Chair’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

Eric Noehrenberg

Eric Noehrenberg, President , NIPC

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9:00

Chair's Opening Remarks

Christopher Stothers, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

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9:10

The advantages of parallel imports from the payer’s perspective

Soeren Brenoee, Senior Economist, Copenhagen Economics

• What are the savings from parallel imports?
• How to quantify those savings?
• What regulation encourages and discourages parallel trade?
 

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9:50

Pinpointing the key trends of Parallel Trade within Europe

Shabnam Hanassab, Engagement Manager, IQVIA

• Overview of Parallel Trade sales trends across the EU in 2020
• Analysing the effect of Brexit and COVID-19 and their impact on supply chain
• Exploring the key drivers of parallel trade across Europe
 

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10:30

Morning Break

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11:00

Exploring cases associated with the Falsified Medicines Directive

Peter Bogaert, Managing Partner, Covington & Burling

• Examples of discussions points under the FMD
• What are we seeing in practice?
• What can we learn from these examples?
• Other experiences
• What countries are doing?
 

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11:40

Panel: Export bans and Parallel Trade

• Exploring how export bans are limiting sourcing opportunities of traders to understand how trade is decreasing
• Will these export bans be kept up in the future?
• Identifying the impact of COVID-19 on export bans in order to understand its significant effect on parallel trade
• What will happen with export bans once the COVID problems are solved?
 

Vimal Unewal, Senior Manager In Market Supply Europe, Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Soeren Brenoee, Senior Economist, Copenhagen Economics

Christopher Stothers, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

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12:20

Networking Break

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13:20

Regulatory issues relevant to parallel trade

Jackie Mulryne, Partner - Life Science Regulatory, Arnold & Porter

• Overview of regulatory considerations, authorisations and licences
• Discussion of recent case law and current areas of dispute: including C-602/19, kohlpharma (changes to parallel import licences) and Case C-387/18, Delfarma (parallel trade of generic products)
• Outstanding questions, including C-147/20, Novartis (the impact of the Falsified Medicines Directive)
• Guidance from the EMA, including considerations where product is subject to special conditions for distribution
 

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14:00

Security of supply for medical and pharmaceutical goods: lessons from the pandemic

Jan Grumiller, Research Scientist, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE)

• Security of supply for medical and pharmaceutical products
• Recent policy discussions on increasing the resilience of global supply chains
• Reshoring as a solution?
 

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14:40

Afternoon Break

• Parallel trade makes medicines more “affordable”, but for whom?
• Impact of parallel trade
• Management of challenges posed by parallel trade
 

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15:10

Insights into Eastern Europe (EE)

Martin Slegl, Regional Principal of East Europe, IQVIA

• Updates about distribution legal changes across EE
• Availability of specialty drugs in EE post-Brexit
• EE as import market(s)
 

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Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

Christopher Stothers, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP


Partner
Arnold & Porter
Partner
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
President
NIPC
Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
UEA, University of East Anglia
Partner - Life Science Regulatory
Arnold & Porter
Research Scientist
Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE)
Partner
Arnold and Porter
Senior Associate
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Regional Principal of East Europe
IQVIA
Managing Partner
Covington & Burling
Managing Partner
Covington & Burling
Engagement Manager
IQVIA Commercial GmbH & Co. OHG
Engagement Manager
IQVIA
Senior Economist
Copenhagen Economics
Head Channel Management RE
Novartis Pharma AG
Senior Manager In Market Supply Europe
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ltd

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Workshops

Speaker interview with David Guest, MHRA

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Preliminary Attendees List 2021

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Speaker Interview with Boryana Marinkova, BAMPTD

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Speaker Interview with Christopher Stothers, Partner, Bruckhaus Freshfields Deringer

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Press release: Post conference Masterclass in EU Distribution

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Speaker interview with Kasper Ernest

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Speaker interview with Vimal Unewal, Ferring Pharmaceuticals

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Chair Letter 2021

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Speaker Interview with Dr Eric Noehrenberg, President, NIPC

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Parallel Trade Speakers bios 2021

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Parallel Trade Short Programme 2021

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Parallel Trade Full Programme 2021

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Past Attendees List

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PAST PRESENTATION BY Peter Bogaert & Wesley Lepla, Covington

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PAST PRESENTATION BY Jeremy Blum, Bristows LLP

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PAST PRESENTATION BY Dermott Glynn, Europe Economics

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PAST PRESENTATION BY Beatriz San Martin, Arnold & Porter

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WHAT IS CPD?

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy, which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and structured. The most common definition is:

‘A commitment to structured skills and knowledge enhancement for Personal or Professional competence’

CPD is a common requirement of individual membership with professional bodies and Institutes. Increasingly, employers also expect their staff to undertake regular CPD activities.

Undertaken over a period of time, CPD ensures that educational qualifications do not become obsolete, and allows for best practice and professional standards to be upheld.

CPD can be undertaken through a variety of learning activities including instructor led training courses, seminars and conferences, e:learning modules or structured reading.

CPD AND PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTES

There are approximately 470 institutes in the UK across all industry sectors, with a collective membership of circa 4 million professionals, and they all expect their members to undertake CPD.

For some institutes undertaking CPD is mandatory e.g. accountancy and law, and linked to a licence to practice, for others it’s obligatory. By ensuring that their members undertake CPD, the professional bodies seek to ensure that professional standards, legislative awareness and ethical practices are maintained.

CPD Schemes often run over the period of a year and the institutes generally provide online tools for their members to record and reflect on their CPD activities.

TYPICAL CPD SCHEMES AND RECORDING OF CPD (CPD points and hours)

Professional bodies and Institutes CPD schemes are either structured as ‘Input’ or ‘Output’ based.

‘Input’ based schemes list a precise number of CPD hours that individuals must achieve within a given time period. These schemes can also use different ‘currencies’ such as points, merits, units or credits, where an individual must accumulate the number required. These currencies are usually based on time i.e. 1 CPD point = 1 hour of learning.

‘Output’ based schemes are learner centred. They require individuals to set learning goals that align to professional competencies, or personal development objectives. These schemes also list different ways to achieve the learning goals e.g. training courses, seminars or e:learning, which enables an individual to complete their CPD through their preferred mode of learning.

The majority of Input and Output based schemes actively encourage individuals to seek appropriate CPD activities independently.

As a formal provider of CPD certified activities, SAE Media Group can provide an indication of the learning benefit gained and the typical completion. However, it is ultimately the responsibility of the delegate to evaluate their learning, and record it correctly in line with their professional body’s or employers requirements.

GLOBAL CPD

Increasingly, international and emerging markets are ‘professionalising’ their workforces and looking to the UK to benchmark educational standards. The undertaking of CPD is now increasingly expected of any individual employed within today’s global marketplace.

CPD Certificates

We can provide a certificate for all our accredited events. To request a CPD certificate for a conference , workshop, master classes you have attended please email events@saemediagroup.com

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