06 March 2019
Telemedicine in France: state of play
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/france/telemedicine-in-france-state-of-play

Telemedicine is governed by Article L6316-1 and R6316-1 and seq of the French public health code (code de la santé publique (CSP)).

24 January 2020
Setting a gold standard in meeting cannabis regulation
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/uk/setting-a-gold-standard-in-meeting-cannabis-regulation

Medical Cannabis Network speaks with Bird & Bird’s Ben King and Sally Shorthose about the importance of product labelling and the regulation of medical cannabis.

06 February 2020
The US/China Trade Agreement: what could it mean for the Pharma Industry?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/the-us-china-trade-agreement-what-could-it-mean-for-the-pharma-industry

Following a long period of negotiation, Phase I of the US-China Trade Agreement was published on 15 January 2020. An important element of the negotiations from the US side had focussed on the need for China to recognise ...

11 December 2018
Pemetrexed: Italian Court reversed the first instance decision ordering a PI on the basis of Eli Lilly's patent
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/italy/italian-court-reversed-the-first-instance-decision-ordering-a-pi-on-the-basis-of-eli-lillys-patent

Diverging from the previous decision, the Court pointed out that the relevance of the file history to construe the scope of protection of a patent and then the infringement of equivalence has to be carefully and ...

11 December 2018
The legal basis for Belgian biobanks enters into force
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/belgium/the-legal-basis-for-belgian-biobanks-finally-enters-into-force

Each Belgian biobank will have to be declared at the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP) in order to operate. It also imposes binding content for agreements on the transfer of human biological ...

11 December 2018
Changes afoot for Belgian manufacturers of allogeneic ATMPs
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/belgium/changes-afoot-for-belgian-manufacturers-of-allogeneic-atmps

Last month, the Belgian Parliament voted in favour of a set of measures that are notably meant to clarify the regulatory landscape of the operators active in the manufacturing of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products ...

12 December 2018
Between pharma, agriculture and narcotics: The rise of medical Cannabis in a controversial emerging regulatory environment
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/germany/the-rise-of-medical-cannabis-in-a-controversial-emerging-regulatory-environment

Since liberalisation at the beginning of 2017, industrial and medical Cannabis have experienced a boom in Germany.

20 March 2020
German Constitutional Court declares the vote on the ratification act of the UPC Agreement unconstitutional because of a lack of the required quorum
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/germany/german-constitutional-court-declares-the-vote-on-the-ratification-act-of-the-upc-agreement

Today the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) ruled that the German ratification act for the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is void, because an insufficient number of members of parliament was ...

01 March 2019
Processing health data in France: What to look out for after GDPR?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/france/processing-health-data-in-france-what-to-look-out-for-after-gdpr

French law imposes stricter requirements than the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) regarding health data processing.

17 March 2020
COVID-19: UK Public Health Perspectives
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/uk/covid-19-uk-public-health-perspectives

As Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the globe, in an effort to prepare for all eventualities, on 10 February 2020, the UK Government passed into law The Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations ...