TRADE AND INDUSTRY PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

HEARINGS

17 MARCH 2010

ROOM E249 - NEW WING BUILDING

Outline

1.Introduction to the NAPM

2.Local & generic industry

3.Industrial Policy

4.IPAP

– Impact of IPAP on industry

– Industry specific challenges

– NAPM recommendations.

Who we are

Oldest and longest standing trade Association for the Pharmaceutical Industry (1977)

Represent the interests of a diverse group of companies – small, medium sized, large and listed companies; local and Multinational

Total membership = 20 companies

11 out of the top 15 generic companies are members (IMS – Feb 2007)

Representative of a number of empowered companies

Visions and Objectives

Vision

We aim to champion affordable healthcare by supporting and developing the South African Pharmaceutical Industry as a national

asset.

Objectives Promote the use of Generics

Development of the South African Pharma Industry To be the voice of the Pharmaceutical Industry in South Africa.

Our Members

Abex Pharmaceutica Arrow Pharma Aurobindo Austell Laboratories Ranbaxy /Be-tabs BodeneCaps SA Cipla MedproColumbia Pharmaceuticals DI Medicines Reg Cons Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ferring Pharmaceuticals Litha Healthcare Medreich SA Mylan Pharmaceuticals Lupin / Pharma DynamicsSandoz SA Sekpharma

Teva SA Thebe Medicare

SMMEBEE

Italics - Multinational

Our involvement

Associate Memberships – Locally

Board Member of the Private Healthcare Forum (PHF) Member of the Pharmaceutical Task Group (PTG) Member of the Marketing Code Steering Committee Member of the Health Care Charter Negotiation Forum Representation on FIFA committee / National Health Consultative Forum

(NHCF) Secretariat of the Industry Task Group (ITG) Member of the Black Management Forum (BMF) Member of NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF)

Associate Memberships – Internationally

Observer member of the International Generic Pharmaceutical Alliance (IGPA)

Founding member and current chair of the Southern African Generic Medicines Association (SAGMA)

Affordability promotes greater patient access Encourages and strengthens price competition

thereby making medicines more cost effective and affordable

Creating self reliance in a critical sector – members scale up over time and move into production (BEE)

Skills development and technology acquisition Employs people – more employed in sales &

marketing, finance & admin than in manufacturing Supportive of government initiatives e.g. Health

Charter and economic transformation

Importance of the Local & Generic Industry

INDUSTRIAL POLICY

National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF ) 2007

NAPM welcomes & applauds government for the extensive work it has done on the NIPF Broad Agreement with the NIPF and would like to note the following:

Thorough research is needed on developing a pharmaceutical sector strategy that incorporates all stakeholders

Need to ensure any sector strategy or industrial policy does not adversely affect access to medicines

Need to ensure competition introduced by government post-1994 by strategic partners from other emerging markets, like India and Brazil, is maintained or enhanced. This competition has resulted in greater access to medicines & forces local companies to up their game

A balance is needed - should not exclude competition from developed markets, or from local non manufacturing companies

Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP ) 2007

NAPM welcomes and applauds government for the extensive work done on the IPAP NAPM would like to make the following comments:

Before any action plans are finalized, we need to ensure that the debate includes all stakeholders, which we feel hasn’t happened adequately to date

We need to complete a cost/benefit analysis of local production as it relates to maximizing access to medicines to all South Africans who need them (contrary to what was said on the 10th in parliament about the DTI commissioned IDC Research, which was referred to liberally by the ASPEN representative industry was not consulted)

We need to align the procurement policies of government to the transformation agenda as reflected in the BBBEE Codes, rather than on a sector strategy that has not included all stakeholders in the debate

IPAP II

Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP ) 2010

Our understanding of the objectives of IPAP are as follows:

Beyond industrial imperatives, it should assist government in realising objectives of making medicines more accessible and affordable

Should not conflict with the state’s constitutional obligations of right to access to healthcare - Section 27 c & NDP

Encourage investment and development of the pharmaceutical industry, not benefit a few companies

Collectively

contributing to

the growth of

the SA economy

IPAP II - Support

• Appropriate sequencing for inclusion of key pharmaceuticals procured by the Department of Health, particularly LIMITED TO anti-retrovirals (ARVs) and production, including strategic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).

• Alignment between B-BBEE and industrial policy AND HEALTH POLICY

• Ongoing developmental tariff reform AIMED AT INCREASING EXPORTS

• Strengthening enforcement of existing and new mandatory standards of IPAP sectors INCLUDING THE MCC/MRA

• Ensuring competitive outcomes SUCH THAT ACCESSIBILITY AND AFFORDABILITY OF MEDICINES ARE NOT COMPROMISED

IPAP II - Myths

India provides the bulk of the ARV’s to RSA (API & FF), naturally given the national HIV / AIDS treatment scale up, the numbers would go up dramatically. Many pharma companies import extensively from the EU, USA – the fascination with the East / India is baffling.

IPAP II - Myths

IPAP II - Myths

It is a fallacy to think formulation capacity will increase security of supply. Security is in API production. The largest Pharma company in RSA discontinued many of their line items last year – Proof that Continuity or Security of supply derives from Competitiveness, Integration & Production efficiency

IPAP II - Myths

IPAP II - Myths

IPAP II - Concerns

Could be unconstitutional...article 217 Procurement –

(1) When an organ of state in the national, provincial or local sphere of government, or any other institution identified in national legislation, contracts for goods or services, it must do so in accordance with a system which is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective.

(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the organs of state or institutions referred to in that subsection from implementing a procurement policy for providing for –

(a) categories of preference in the allocation of contracts; and (b) the protection or advancement of persons, or categories of persons,

disadvantaged by unfair discriminationLack of integration or scale hardly qualifies as unfair discrimination

(3) National legislation must prescribe a framework within which the policy referred to in subsection (2) must be implemented

IPAP II - Concerns

By default confers dominance in few locally producing companies – by way of example, Aspen already: Supplies 3 out of 4 ARV’s in the public sector Supplies 1 out of 4 tablets to public sector institutions – share to increase?

IPAP 2? Supplies 1 in 4/5 of every dispensed script by pharmacists in RSA

Source: Aspen Interim results presentation for the six months ended 31 Dec 2009

Ignores the reality of the Evolution of companies. We need more companies to compete – many of these companies will evolve and scale up into manufacturing (example of Cipla Medpro, Ranbaxy, Aurobindo).

Downplays the importance of API – local companies at a strategic disadvantage because of lack of Integration

IPAP II - Concerns

By default may affect access by reducing affordability – e.g. Contraceptive tender shows the effect of competition

Product / Supplier & Price

Aspen Dr Reddys

Triphasil R4,81 R2,59

Nordette R 5,26 R 2,63

IPAP II - Concerns

To align discretionary points with B-BBEE Codes and local procurement so that only suppliers providing domestically produced goods and services will be considered for preference points. They will earn these points according to their B-BBEE status.

“Point matching” by domestic producers - if a local supplier knows that he will get a second bite at the cherry, he will not have any incentive to offer the best price. Further, an importing competitor will not have any incentive to tender in the first place. This will have the real effect of limiting competition, thereby inflating prices artificially & limiting access. To some family out there, what we call “point matching” might translate into a “child in the hospital” or a “death in the family”

Overhaul of Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA)

IPAP II - IMPACT

Unintended consequence of encouraging perverse pricing

and business practice Could encourage artificial monopolies resulting in

decreased competition and consequently increased medicine prices in the long run.

Could impact on long term access and affordability of medicines

Market dominance will result in smaller players exiting and prevent the Transformation of the industry

NAPM RECOMMENDATIONS - IPAP II

Requirements for success

Government support for the whole industry Clarity on the who is a local manufacturer and what constitutes local

manufacturing Promotion of fair and healthy competition Alignment of policies and objectives relating to health,

investment, capacity building and job creation Strengthening / restructuring of the MCC/MRA Encouraging and enhancing competition Development of an industrial energy efficiency programme