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Lidings – Strategic Partner of the Conference on Legal Issues in Pharmaceutical Industry

10 April 2025

April 10th, 2025 annual conference Pharmaceuticals – 2025: Legal Issues will take place in Moscow organized by Pravo.ru. Lidings lawyers take an active part in the event’s program.

As a strategic partner of the conference, we aimed to make the program rich and actual. Together with pharmaceutical industry experts and lawyers, we will discuss how the market has changed in 2024 and what awaits us in 2025.

Anti-Corruption Compliance: Conditions For Legal Entities to Develop Anti-Corruption Compliance Policy

26 March 2025 “Business Quarterly” Publication, Association of European Businesses,March 2025

Corruption remains one of the key threats to sustainable business development. Corruption scandals demonstrate the disastrous consequences of corruption revelations for companies: multimillion dollar fines, criminal prosecutions of executives, reputational damage and loss of investor confidence.

The Law on Advertising Was Supplemented with A New Article 18.2 ‘Compulsory Deductions for The Distribution of Advertising on The Internet’

30 December 2024

On 26.12.2024, Federal Law No. 479-FZ was signed, which provides for the obligation for advertising distributors and advertising system operators who distribute advertising in the Internet, aimed at attracting the attention of advertising consumers located in the territory of the Russian Federation, mandatory contributions to the federal budget in the amount of 3% of the amount of income received during the quarter from the sale of services for the distribution of advertising on the ‘Internet’. Quarters are counted from the beginning of the calendar year.


Overview of the Basic Principles of Fair Advertising Practices

23 December 2024

At the 26th session of the Advertising Coordinating Council under the ICAP the Basic Principles of Fair Practices for Bloggers in Advertising in the CIS countries (hereinafter referred to as the “Basic Principles”) were introduced. Basic Principles is an act for self-regulation. The main purpose of Basic Principles is to assist bloggers from CIS countries in complying with advertising legislation.

Start Of the Experiment on Monitoring of Manufacturers of Dietary Supplements, Clothing and Footwear

29 November 2024

On November 22, 2024, the Government of the Russian Federation (the “Government”) approved Resolution No. 1607 dated November 22, 2024 (the “Resolution”) on the experiment in the territory of the Russian Federation to conduct monitoring of Russian manufacturers of goods which are subject to mandatory marking with means of identification using the state information monitoring system for the circulation of goods subject to mandatory marking with means of identification (the “Experiment”).

More in our update.


Significant Turnaround in Russian Antitrust Practice of Protecting the Exclusivity of Drugs

29 October 2024

Despite the fact that the issue of intellectual property rights turnover is included in the perimeter of antimonopoly regulation, until recently the Russian Antitrust Agency took rather an observant position.

The regulator's position was that the issue of patent infringement is a private legal dispute between original and generic manufacturers, which should not affect the turnover of drugs, particularly the execution of contracts based on the results of public procurement. Only in isolated cases the Russian Antitrust Agency has established the fact of patent infringement and issued a corresponding order on the inadmissibility of anti-competitive practices.

Now the reverse trend has clearly emerged.

More in our update.


Overview of FAS Recommendations on Preventing Greenwashing

28 October 2024

On October 23, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (the “FAS”) has published recommendations for preventing greenwashing in marketing communications (the “Recommendations”).

Greenwashing is described as actions involving the distribution of false or incorrect environmental statements that mislead consumers regarding the environmental characteristics of goods in order to obtain unjustified advantages.

The Recommendations provide for the concept of environmental statements, their types and requirements for them, as well as the consequences of non-compliance with the requirements for such statements.

Lidings is a Strategic Partner of the "Pharmaceuticals 2024: Legal Issues" Conference, Pravo.ru

11 April 2024

On April 11, 2024, in Moscow, the annual Pravo.ru conference "Pharmaceuticals – 2024: Legal Issues" will take place. Lidings lawyers traditionally take an active part in the event’s program.

As a strategic partner of the conference, we have endeavored to make the program as comprehensive and useful as possible. Together with experts from the pharmaceutical industry and legal experts, we will discuss current issues in industry regulation, legislative changes, market access, government procurement, and distribution. We will also touch upon marketing and promotion issues, as well as discuss strategies for protecting intellectual property.