Ministry of Health The Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the Ministry') shall notify registration holders to make every effort to ensure that applications for reduction are officially the determined price of the medicinal products delivered to the Ministry by 10 April 2012 at the latest; On 15 April 2012 published decisions to comply with these requests. Necessary the condition is the delivery of duly and correctly completed applications together with all the required annexes.
With this step, the Ministry meets especially for patients, so that high prices of medicines do not translate into high surcharges and for patients to pay less for medicines. Pharmaceutical companies had since 1 December 2011 enough time to lower the prices of medicines, nevertheless The Ministry offers another option in the interest of patients. These price reductions will be applicable from 1.7.2012 and fully reflected in the reduction of the surcharges patients.