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What has changed
On 16 July 2020, the Board of Directors of the National Food and Safety Authority (“NFSA”) issued a decision No. 6 for 2020 setting rules for regulating the importation of food in Egypt (the “Decision”). Before the issuance of this Decision, imported food was subject to the general standard requirements of importation license. However, this Decision prohibited any food facility or food importer, whether a natural person or a company to undertake any activity of food importation without obtaining the prior license from the NFSA.
What has changed
On 16 July 2020, the Board of Directors of the National Food and Safety Authority (“NFSA”) issued a decision No. 6 for 2020 setting rules for regulating the importation of food in Egypt (the “Decision”). Before the issuance of this Decision, imported food was subject to the general standard requirements of importation license. However, this Decision prohibited any food facility or food importer, whether a natural person or a company to undertake any activity of food importation without obtaining the prior license from the NFSA.
What’s changed The Egyptian Prime Minister has established a ministerial committee under the Intellectual Property Law No. 82/2002 (“IP Law”) for compulsory licensing. The compulsory licensing mechanism as set by the IP Law covers all sorts of patents in all sectors of the economy. The ministerial committee will (i) order…
Download publication Antitrust law in Africa is growing at a rapid rate with the introduction of laws and regulations, increase in memberships to regional antitrust bodies and ramped-up enforcement by domestic and regional regulators. Since the beginning of 2018, domestic competition legislation has been enacted in Angola and Nigeria, and…
Recent developments Following media reports that two multinational companies were in merger discussions, the Egyptian Competition Authority (“ECA”) has told the parties to seek prior ECA approval before entering into any agreement. Although the parties denied entering into any agreement with the intention to merge, the ECA informed them that…
On 31 May 2016, the Egyptian Competition Authority issued a decision condemning a market-sharing cartel between the Egyptian Union for Insurance and the Egyptian Association for Healthcare Companies.
In December 2015, the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) announced that it had uncovered a cartel in the pharmaceutical distribution sector and revealed that it had gathered evidence of the cartel during dawn raids.