Back 10th anniversary of the opening of the MEDICRIME Convention

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On 28 October 2021, we celebrate 10 years of the opening of the MEDICRIME Convention.

Back in 2011, at the first official meeting of the MEDICRIME Convention held in Moscow, the Convention was open for signatures. On 1st January 2016, the MEDICRIME Convention entered into force following five ratifications including at least three from member States of the Council of Europe.

The MEDICRIME Convention has now 18 members: 14 CoE member States, 4 non-member State. Further 14 states have signed the MEDICRIME Convention (11 CoE member States and 2 non-member States).

To celebrate 10th anniversary, a number of promotional activities will take place throughout the year and a major institutional event (online) will be held on 28 October 2021.

To be updated about the MEDICRIME Convention Anniversary, please see the MEDICRIME Website regularly and keep in touch on its Twitter account @MEDICRIMEC.

19 January 2021
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Covid 19

At a time when the Covid-19 epidemic is posing unprecedented challenges to the health sector, the Council of Europe calls on governments to be extremely vigilant against counterfeit or falsified medicines and medical products. Faced with this threat, states can rely on the MEDICRIME Convention to safeguard public health and target the criminal behaviour of those who, like criminal networks, take advantage of the loopholes in our systems and of the current crisis.

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"In recent years, occurrences of counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes have increased worldwide. These crimes endanger public health, and affect patients and their confidence in the legal marketplace.

Even more profitable than drug trafficking, this new form of crime has an undeniable advantage for criminals: they go largely unpunished or receive only mild sanctions. Even when states take strict measures to regulate the production and distribution of medical products and devices, these measures often prove insufficient, especially when criminal networks find gaps in national legislations allowing them to make substantial profits at the expense of people’s lives and health. The MEDICRIME Convention was drafted to protect vulnerable patients and their right to safe access to medicines of appropriate quality, and to fight against organised crime. As the first and only international treaty dealing with this problem, the convention aims at prosecuting the counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes, protecting the rights of victims and promoting national and international co-operation."

Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni
Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe