On 16 August 2022, the Health Sciences Authority issued an update on products that were found by overseas regulators to contain potent ingredients. Such potent ingredients are banned from health products as they may cause certain side effects.
In the month of August 2022, the Health Sciences Authority issued several retail-level recalls in respect of therapeutic products and Chinese proprietary medicines that were in breach of applicable healthcare regulations.
EUR 4.30 instead of EUR 9.52 per gram: The reimbursable base price for medical cannabis cultivated in Germany has been almost cut in half whereas the base price for imported cannabis flowers remains unaffected. According to an arbitration ruling of 17 June 2022, a base price of EUR 4.30 (plus surcharges of 90% or 100%) per gram is reimbursable for cannabis flowers cultivated in Germany. Prior to the ruling, statutory health insurance funds reimbursed a base price of EUR 9.52 per gram plus varying surcharges for all cannabis flowers. This also applied to cannabis flowers cultivated in Germany and sold to pharmacies for a fixed price of only EUR 4.30 per gram.
The Annual Compliance Conference begins next week and attracts over 6,000 in-house senior legal and compliance professionals from across the world. This leading compliance conference will be held across five weeks from 6 September – 6 October 2022. We will be virtually delivering our cutting-edge insights and guidance on key global compliance, investigations and ethics issues. Our global experts will provide practical insights and analysis on significant developments:
• anti-bribery
• corruption and economic crime
• customs and FTAs
• ESG, supply chain and product compliance
• antitrust and competition
• export controls, sanctions and foreign investment
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With Law No. 108 of 5 August 2022 (converting Decree-Law No. 68 of 16 June 2022 into law, with amendments), the Italian government introduced a favorable regime for authorized car distributors that will have a major impact on the sector. The new legislation applies to all vertical relationships between the manufacturer or importer of vehicles and the authorized distributor for the sale of vehicles that have not yet been registered, as well as vehicles that have been registered by the authorized distributors for not more than six months and have not traveled more than 6,000 kilometers.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) will be introducing “Nutri-Grade”-related measures that will apply to freshly prepared beverages. From the end of 2023, all outlets selling freshly prepared beverages with higher sugar and saturated fat content will have to label such beverages with the “Nutri-Grade” mark. Outlets will also be prohibited from advertising freshly prepared beverages with the highest level of sugar and saturated fat content.
On 26 July 2022, the Energy Regulatory Commission submitted before the National Regulatory Improvement Commission a preliminary document draft of the General Administrative Provisions that establishes (i) new obligations and compliance procedures for commercialization and distribution permit holders of oil-refined products or petrochemicals, as well as (ii) new requirements and procedures for applications to secure permits before CRE.
Several providers of online games of luck and chance were recently confronted with the blocking of their websites by Swiss authorities. In two recent decisions, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court approved these blockings, confirming that foreign providers need to take appropriate technical measures from the outset to prevent their website from being blocked in Switzerland. Below, we provide a short overview of the legislative background of such blockings and the reasoning of the SFSC in its decisions. Moreover, we set out the most important considerations for foreign providers of online games of luck and chance in Switzerland.
At the end of July 2022 the UK government announced a range of proposed measures to ease the transition to the new UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) regime that will replace the EU’s CE marking regime for the Great Britain market (England, Scotland and Wales) in respect of most types of CE marked products from the start of 2023. Note, products sold in Northern Ireland will continue to need to be CE marked as a result of the Northern Ireland Protocol, even once UKCA marking has become mandatory across the rest of the UK.
Consumers are demanding more from their brands and increasingly basing their purchasing decisions on the sustainability of products and companies. In response to this, the Baker McKenzie Consumer Goods & Retail industry group has produced the “CG&R and Sustainability Video Chat Series” in which experts provide short, practical insights into some of the legal considerations that companies need to keep in mind when undertaking green innovation. In the second episode of the series, Julia Hemmings, a Partner in the Digital Commerce, Advertising & Marketing practice in London, and Rebecca Lederhouse, a Counsel in IP and Technology based in the Chicago office, discuss the role of marketing in green innovation and the increasing regulatory scrutiny around green claims in advertising.