The event has been organized by CeBIL. Minssen made opening and closing remarks and moderated the discussion.
The conference brought together representatives from the OECD, European Commission, Italian Competition Authority, Italian Medicines Agency, UK Competition and Consumer Agency, Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, the European Consumer Organization (BEUC) as well as leading scholars and global experts. The conference is a follow-up on a high-level conference held in Copenhagen in November 2019 targeting pricing issues in competition law and pharmaceutical market. This webinar targeted the most acute competition law and regulatory issues in the pharmaceutical sector in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis regarding pricing and access. The webinar addressed the issue that COVID-19 crisis elevated both the matter of excessive pricing / price gouging as well as the question of access and affordability regarding treatment and vaccines, from various perspectives.