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Building long-term integrity in the voluntary carbon market
In recent years, an important question has arisen in relation to the voluntary carbon market (VCM) as it continues to expand: How do we elevate and maintain its integrity?
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United States | Publication | April 15, 2021
On April 13, 2021, Acting Federal Trade Commission Chair Rebecca Kelly Slaughter announced that she had appointed Marta E. Wosińska to lead the FTC's Bureau of Economics. Dr. Wosińska is set to join the FTC later this month. With a background in the economics of healthcare and pharmaceuticals markets, Dr. Wosińska's appointment will likely strengthen the FTC's enforcement against mergers in the healthcare and pharmaceutical spaces.
Dr. Wosińska will be leading a Bureau with significant experience in analyzing healthcare and pharmaceutical mergers, which accounted for nearly half of all FTC enforcement actions in 2020. With the recent announcement that the FTC has joined a multilateral working group with the Department of Justice, state attorneys general, and various foreign antitrust enforcers to update the approach to analyzing the effects of pharmaceutical mergers, Dr. Wosińska may also have a significant impact on the future of pharmaceutical merger review.
Dr. Wosińska joins the FTC from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. Her government experience includes previous roles as the Chief Healthcare Economist in the HHS Office of the Inspector General and the Director for Economics Staff at the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Although the current Commissioners unanimously approved the appointment of Dr. Wosińska, permanent Commissioner appointments are still pending, which leaves room for additional staffing changes later on.
Norton Rose Fulbright has significant experience in healthcare and pharmaceutical antitrust matters. We would be pleased to assist healthcare and pharmaceutical companies in monitoring the FTC's evolving approach to investigating healthcare and pharmaceutical matters and developing ways to navigate the FTC review process.
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In recent years, an important question has arisen in relation to the voluntary carbon market (VCM) as it continues to expand: How do we elevate and maintain its integrity?
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On 16 April 2024, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, the Minister for the Environment and Water (the Minister) announced progress on the package of reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act).
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