HELP course on Pharmaceutical crime and the MEDICRIME Convention

This HELP course on Pharmaceutical crime and the MEDICRIME Convention is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. The falsification of medical products and other similar crimes effectively deny patients the necessary medical treatment and are harmful to the health of individuals. In addition, the circulation of counterfeit (or falsified) medical products undermines public confidence in healthcare systems. In response to this global threat, the Council of Europe has drawn up the first international treat against counterfeit medical products and similar crimes involving threats to public health, the MEDICRIME Convention. The Convention establishes several offences such as the manufacturing, supplying, offering to supply and trafficking in counterfeit medical products, as well as the unauthorised manufacturing or supplying of medicinal products and the marketing of medical devices that do not comply with conformity requirements. This course aims at assisting legal professionals to appropriately address pharmaceutical crime. In particular, the course helps understand what pharmaceutical crime is, how it is investigated, and how different agencies and individuals are cooperating in combating this specific form of criminality. It also introduces to the Council of Europe MEDICRIME Convention and its mode of operation. The course consists of the following 4 substantive modules: What is pharmaceutical crime? Offences under the MEDICRIME Convention Investigating a pharmaceutical crime International cooperation If you are interested in this course or another, you simply need to register in order to access the website resources. An explanatory document is available to make it easier for new persons to find their way around the site. To access the course, firstly you need to open yourself an account at HELP website. Once logged in to the HELP platform you can click here to access the course directly.