Portugal: Setting of prices by professional associations in the health sector

The two legal frameworks also prohibit any interference in the setting of prices by market forces, either causing them to fall or rise artificially.

The new approach, called structured product description (SPD) uses a set of price-determining characteristics for each ultimate class of product, of which there are about 800 in the ICP for household consumption expenditure.

Further clarification was needed on the measures that UNCTAD might take to achieve transparency in the setting of prices, particularly for agricultural products such as coffee, cocoa and cotton, which was done mostly in New York, Chicago and London.

Furthermore, AMFm aims to make combination therapy available at no or low cost to the end-user through negotiation of terms for low-cost antimalarials, and setting of prices and terms for international distribution.

The overpayment was also caused by the ambiguity of contract provisions for the setting of fuel prices.

Nominally, LPRC set the price of fuel and collected some gains, designated as taxes.

So, central banks must set the price of liquidity in themarket day in and day out.

Then they set the price of liquidity as an administeredprice in normal times.

On 11 June 1997, the Brazilian authorities concluded that this setting of sale prices for common flat steel amounted to a cartel.