Reed Smith’s Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog features a post on a recent decision by the French Supreme Administrative Court (Conseil d’Etat) that expands the scope of the French Sunshine Act. “French Supreme Administrative Court Decision Significantly Broadens the Scope of the French Sunshine Act,” written by Reed Smith attorneys Daniel Kadar and Caroline Gouraud, highlights two major changes to the current French Sunshine Act provisions: (1) health care companies will now be required to disclose the contractual remuneration paid to health care providers, and (2) manufacturers and marketers of non-corrective contact lenses, cosmetics and tattoo products will now be held to the same transparency standards as manufacturers and marketers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. As to the former change, the French Ministry of Health must now decide whether or not the remuneration disclosure requirement should be retroactively applied – potentially back to January 1, 2012, the date of the first reporting requirements.
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