On Information and Advertising in General and Advertising of Medicinal Products in Particular

The issues of regulation of advertising of medicines are considered in connection with the requirement for mandatory labeling of advertising distributed on the Internet. It is proposed to assign the functions of preliminary control of drug advertising to ethical committees. To exercise the consumer’s right to choose, it is proposed to allow the dissemination of information about the active ingredients of medicines while simultaneously strengthening state control over compliance with the dispensing procedure.