The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has opened a sanctions file against General Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists of Spain and to the schools of Alava, Burgos, Cordoba, Guipúzcoa, León, Pontevedra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Toledo, Valladolid, Vizcaya and Zaragoza, for “practices contrary” to articles 1 of Law 15/2007 of July 3 for the defense of competition and 101 of the Treaty on the functioning of competition European Union (S/0009/23).
The General Council would have made, as explained in a note from the CNMC, a collective recommendation (communications, circulars, etc.) through at least eleven provincial orders for pharmacists to use the CisMED and FarmaHelp digital applications.
The state collegial body is itself the promoter of these digital tools, but there are other competitors who offer similar applications (e.g. LudaFarma), explains the CNMC, “whose implementation and development would have been affected by the collective recommendation”.
The investigation originated in the complaint filed Luda Partners SL against these collegial bodies for anti-competitive practices in the digital tools for logistics pharmacy offices, and in the reserved information carried out by the Competition Department. As part of said confidential information, the CNMC inspected the headquarters of the General Council of Official Orders of Pharmacists.
The initiation of this save does not prejudge the final outcome of the investigation. A maximum period of 24 months is now open for its investigation and resolution.
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