Clause 12 - Disguised Promotion
12.1 Promotional material and activities must not be disguised.
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AUTH/3273/10/19 - Complainant v Gedeon Richter
Breach: 4.3, 9.1
No breach: 2, 12.1, 26.1, 28.1
Applicable Code:
2019
Received: 28 October 2019
Completed: 24 April 2020
AUTH/3172/3/19 - Anonymous v Sandoz
No breach: 2, 9.1, 12.1, 15.2, 18.1
Applicable Code:
2019
Received: 18 March 2019
Completed: 18 September 2019
12.2 Market research activities, clinical assessments, post-marketing surveillance and experience programmes, post-authorization studies (including those that are retrospective in nature) and the like must not be disguised promotion. They must be conducted with a primarily scientific or educational purpose.