CC’s decision is generally compulsory and will be grounded and published in the Official Gazette.
Mid-January, generic drug producers rejected the new clawback formula, arguing that the Government kept ignoring their propositions.
The Association of Romanian Producers of Generic Drugs (APMGR) warned that hundreds of affordable products, used by 70% of Romanian patients, might disappear from the market, and called on authorities not to apply the clawback tax to cheap medicines.
According to new formula, the clawback tax was reduced by 10% and charged starting on October 1.
Should a producer not pay this tax, all its products will be eliminated from the list of compensated and free of charge drugs, according to the law.
The clawback system, introduced at the end of 2009, states that all medical drugs producers should contribute to the financing of the public health system with between 5% to 11% of the revenues posted from products sale.