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NA-FAMED (“Needs assessment – Falsified Medical Products”) is the first cooperation project on the MEDICRIME Convention and it aims at providing technical assistance and support to Council of Europe member States, and other countries, to fight against the falsification of medical products and similar crimes.

Within this framework and for better application of the Convention internationally, the Project has developed a number of activities promoting the MEDICRIME Convention, its national and international application and international cooperation in criminal matters regarding the fight against the falsification of medical products and similar crimes.

To raise awareness of the danger of using counterfeit medical products and to strengthen international co-operation in criminal matters, the NA-FAMED project will organise inter alia several webinars on to the MEDICRIME Convention and selected relevant themes, such as gender, Internet and supply chain, victims, children and others.

To obtain more info about this new activity under the MEDICRIME Convention, 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