“The Antimonopoly Committee imposed a fine on two distributors of medicines that have conspired to keep the price of the popular drugs “Spasmalgon”, “Evakalin Aqua”, “Bifren” and others. This was reported by the AMCU press service. According to the Committee’s decision, both companies Badm LLC and JV Optima-Farm, Ltd”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
The Antimonopoly Committee imposed a fine on two medicines distributors who conspired to keep the price for popular medicines’ Spasmalgon ” , “ Evcazolin Aqua ” , “ Bifren ” and others .
About it reports AMCU press service.
According to the Committee’s decision, both companies of LLC “ Badm ” And the joint venture “ Optima-Farm, LTD ” committed anti -competitive actions in the pharmaceutical market. During 2020-2023, they agreed prices for a number of popular medicines such as “ Spasmalgon ” , “ Evcazolin Aqua ” , “ Bifren ” and others that limited competition between them.
The market analysis showed that their total share in the wholesale market of medicinal products exceeded 85%.
The AMCU found that companies did not have transparent pricing mechanisms, and prices for drugs were agreed.
As a result of such actions, they were able to increase their financial indicators: net profit of LLC “ Badm ” grew 3.5 times and JV “ Optima-Farm, LTD ” – 11 times.
The Committee obliged the companies to stop the violation and imposed penalties: UAH 2.37 billion for LLCs “ Badm ” and UAH 2.43 billion for joint vent “ Optima-Farm, LTD ” .
Earlier, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine began consideration against groups of companies “Avangard” and Ovostar Union on suspicion of anti -competitive concerted actions when forming prices for chicken eggs.
The AMCU for Naftogaz Trading and Ukrtransgaz fined the Naftogaz group by UAH 1.7 billion.
