OREANDA-NEWS. May 24, 2010. The 4th Annual International Conference "Generics in Russia and CIS" was organized in London (the U.K.) by "Marcus Evans", reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The Head of the FAS Russia's Department for Control over Social Sphere and Trading, Timophey Nizhegorodtsev, took part in the Conference.

Presentations were given by representatives of pharmaceutical companies from Russia, CIS and Europe: "COMCON- Pharma", "Egis", "Merz Pharma", "SMD", "Polpharma", "Actavis", "Gesundheit Osterreich GmBH", "Pharmac", "BELUPO, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics, dd", representatives of the World Trade Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Institute of Public Health Care Problems.

The Conference focused on such issues as: approaches to assessment of the role of generics in medicine supply programmes; comparative features of regulatory environment in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in light of the emerging Customs Union; review of international pricing practice in generics sector.

Timophey Nizhegorodtsev made a presentation "Antimonopoly aspects of developing generics market", where he told the Conference about specifics of antimonopoly control over the market of generics in Russia and about the current programmes for development and support of pharmaceutical companies in Russia.

In general, the Conference met the high standards, enabling the FAS Russia's representative to discuss the most pressing issues related to the pharmaceutical industry and present a competent position of the Antimonopoly Service on the issues in question.