Drugs may be adjusted from 5.9% from March 31
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Amanda Cieglinski
Reporter Agency Brazil
Brasilia - The maximum rate of increase of prices of medicines in 2009 of 5.9%. The decision of the Board of Market Regulation of medicines (Cmed), linked to the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), will be published tomorrow in the Diário Oficial da União
Around 20 thousand products sold in the country may apply this hotfix. Only homeopathic, herbal and the approximately 400 drugs with large market competition, such as dipyrone, are freed of the criteria for adjustment of prices.
Manufacturers could adjust the prices as of March 31. Until then, must submit a report to Cmed Marketing, informing the prices they intend to charge after correction allowed. The Consumer Price To (PCM) may not be exceeded for one year, until March 2010.
"This increase is foreseen in the legislation which requires that companies be entitled to a readjustment of prices in March. The concept of price ceiling takes into account mainly the IPCA [National Index of Consumer Prices Wide], measured by the IBGE [Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics], which has 5.9% in 2008, "says Executive Secretary Cmed, Luiz Milton.
In 2008, the Cmed has three bands of adjustment, the majority of them of 4.61%. If the company will market does not deliver the report and practice adjustments above 5.9%, the punishment is fines ranging from U.S. $ 212 to U.S. $ 3.2 million per violation.
Source: Agência Brasil
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