Title I - PROVISIONS OF THE CODE
CHAPTER II - Interaction with Healthcare Professionals and Organisations
15. DONATIONS AND GRANTS
Donations, grants or benefits in kind to Patient Organisations, institutions, organisations, associations or foundations made up of Healthcare Professionals and/or those that provide social or humanitarian healthcare services, research, teaching or education, that are not considered in any other article of this Code are only permitted if:
i) they are conducted for the purpose of collaborating with healthcare, research, teaching/training or social or humanitarian care;
ii) they are formalised in writing with the company retaining a copy of these documents; and
iii) they do not constitute an inducement to recommend, prescribe, purchase, supply, sell or administer medicines.
Donations or grants to individual Healthcare Professionals is not permitted except when collaborating with or sponsoring Healthcare Professionals’ or patients’ attendance to meetings as stipulated in article 11 and in article 17.8.