EU Competition Law and Pharmaceuticals

Download or read book EU Competition Law and Pharmaceuticals written by Wolf Sauter and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book discusses the application of the EU competition rules to pharmaceuticals, covering the prohibitions on anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominance, and merger control. It carefully considers the balance between competition and innovation, as well as between competition and regulation, and concludes that competition and regulation are not alternatives, but complementary, and that novel ways of taking into account risk and real innovation through competition assessments have been developed.