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E-pharmacies in Europe: When Two Regulatory Worlds Collide

By Simon Smith
August 01, 2003

The authorities in the European Union (EU) are steadily increasing the amount of regulation over the Internet and aspects of e-commerce in particular.

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most regulated consumer-facing industries in the world, and the EU differs relatively little in its general approach from that to be found in the United States and Japan.

When the sale of pharmaceutical products occurs on the Internet, therefore, a number of regulatory issues need to be borne in mind, and a recent court case has highlighted a number of these issues.

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