The enforcement of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, which requires Contract Sales Organizations (CSOs) to report to local governments and educate their employees on the prohibition of rebates, is now 2 months away.

The pharmaceutical and CSO industries are hoping the implementation of the reporting system will serve as a milestone to increase the transparency of illegal drug rebate practices and put behind their past where CSOs were used as black money payment channels to promote the physicians’ prescription of certain drugs.

In law with the law's implementation, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) announced the proposed amendments to the Enforcement Rules of the Pharmaceutical Af