Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in Covid – A Legal Perspective

The team at Ivy Law participated in a webinar on “Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in Covid – A Legal Perspective”, conducted by Lawyered. The webinar highlighted different challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies during Covid, like classification of packaging materials as essential goods and administrative issues like lack of protocol for production of drugs. The panel also discussed the dependence of the Indian pharmaceutical industry on other countries for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s) and the need to be self-reliant on APIs. The process for registration of a new drug including the stages in the trial of a drug were also emphasized.