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The EU is currently allocating grants and loans to EU Member States to support economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Significant funding is available for reforms and investments focused on digital transformation and green transition. This alert focuses on some key opportunities for TMT business to secure investment taking Italy as an example.

In the context of an emergency negotiated procedure for the awarding of framework agreements for the supply of ecotomographs intended for the COVID-19 health emergency, the Council of State reiterated the obligation for the bidder to specify in its financial offer the cost of labor highlighting that the failure to comply with this requirement results in the exclusion from the tender pursuant to Sections 95, paragraph 10, and 83, paragraph 9, of the Code of Public Contracts.

With a press release dated 20 May 2021, the Italian Medicine Agency (AIFA) informed that starting from 31 May 2021 the new e-Dossier Pricing and Reimbursement portal is available on its website. The purpose of the Portal is to support the submission of pricing and reimbursement applications by allowing the preparation of the relevant dossiers in digital format.

On 17 May 2021, the Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) issued a notice addressed to manufacturers of in vitro diagnostic medical devices, and their authorized representatives, emphasizing the importance of continually assessing the impact of newly identified SARS-CoV-2 virus variants on the capability of those devices to ensure the safety of patients, compliance with essential requirements, a high level of performance, and overall compliance with applicable regulations.

On 19 May 2021, the AIFA published the updated reports on the monitoring of biosimilar drugs in Italy which analyze the consumption and expenditure trends in the period from January 2019 to December 2020 and the the use of said drugs at the regional level in the period from January to December 2020. The purpose of the reports is to provide those individuals responsible for the monitoring and governance of pharmaceutical expenditure with useful information to promote the use of patent-expired medicines, assess the effectiveness of regional tenders, identify areas of intervention and, lastly, monitor the effects of the adopted policies.

On 4 May 2021, the official Italian version of the European Medical Device Nomenclature (EMDN), to be used for the registration of medical devices in the Eudamed database, was published. The EMDN has been developed on the basis of the Italian National Classification of Medical Devices due to its characteristics in terms of structure, purpose, usability and updating methodology.

On 6 April 2021, the Italian Medicines Agency (Agenzia Italiana del Farmarco or AIFA) published a document updating the requirements to be reported in the outer labelling of centralized medicinal products placed on the Italian market (so-called “Blue Box”). In this respect, it should be noted that the Blue Box is that area, marked by a blue border, included in the label of a medicinal product intended to contain specific information relevant for each Member State in whose territory the product is marketed.