The Arbitration Court of the Moscow District, in its Award No. F05-15092/2020 of 06.10.2020 No. F05-15092/2020 rejected the state customer's claim to provide a registration certificate of a medical device for the delivered car and mammography device.

By letter of the Federal Antimonopoly Service dated September 28, 2020 No. IA/83689/20, clarifications were given on the procurement of disposable medical devices (use) made of polyvinyl chloride plastics.

New Rules for the destruction of seized counterfeit medicines, substandard and counterfeit medicines (hereinafter – Rules for the destruction of medicinal products) were approved by the Decree of the Government of Russia dated September 15, 2020 No. 1447.

Decree of the Government of Russia dated October 1, 2020 No. 1583 approved the Rules for the circulation of generic drugs and biosimilars until the end of the period established for conducting studies of their bioequivalence or therapeutic equivalence (hereinafter – the Rules), which entered into force on October 5, 2020.

On September 28, 2020, new rules for determining the maximum size of wholesale and retail markups to the actual selling prices of manufacturers of medicines included in the vital and essential drugs list came into force.

On September 8, 2020, the Administrative Regulations of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare on the provision of state services for issuing a permit for the retail sale of medicinal products for medical use remotely, approved by order of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare N 5161 (hereinafter referred to as the “Administrative Regulations”), came into force.

On August 31, 2020, the decree of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation of May 15, 2020, N 450n “On approval of the procedure for determining the initial (maximum) contract price, the price of a contract concluded with a single supplier (contractor, performer), and the initial unit price of goods” came into force, work, services in the procurement of medical products.

Decree of the Government of Russia dated July 4, 2020 N 982 establishes that from January 1, 2021, such legal acts as:

By the Decree of the Government of Russia dated June 30, 2020 N 955, the order of the introduction into the circulation of medicinal products for medical use until January 1, 2021, were approved.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has developed a draft Procedure for maintaining the federal register of citizens entitled to the provision of medicines, medical devices, and specialized medical food products at the expense of budgetary funds (hereinafter referred to as the “Draft”).