The directions of development of legal regulation of patenting the methods of treatment in Ukraine considering the European and world experience.

INTRODUCTION: the current state of patenting legal regulation of medical treatment in Ukraine and in the world is analyzed, the directions for the further development are determined. The author defines "non-industrial medical" and socio-ethical theories in the field of medical treatment patent protection. The existence of exclusively formal "monopoly" of the patent owner is noted, as well as the inapplicability of the majority of the patented achievements in this field in Ukraine. AIM: the purpose of this article is to investigate the current state of patenting legal regulation of medical treatment in Ukraine and in the world, to analyze the limitation of patent protection basic conception in the medical field and to determine the tendencies and perspectives of the legal protection mechanism of further development in this field in Ukraine, considering the European and world regulation experience. MATERIAL AND METHODS: this study is based on Ukrainian regulation acts, The European Patent Convention, The Code of Laws of the United States of America, judgments, scientific works and opinions of progressive-minded people in this sphere. Such methods as dialectical, comparative, analytic, synthetic and comprehensive are used in the article. CONCLUSION: The experience analysis of the medical treatment patenting regulation in EU and in other countries of the word made it possible to substantiate the tendencies of development the patenting legal regulation of treatment methods mechanism, based on the needs of creation conditions for the availability of the recent treatment developments and technics for citizens, without increasing the cost of such treatment through license fees.

European experience of regulating distance selling of medicines for Ukraine.

INTRODUCTION: Some countries have already tried and tested mechanisms of regulating distance sales as form of distribution of medicines that have been used more or less effectively for a fairly long time. Herewith, so far, the approach of the competent authorities of some countries including Ukraine can be called prevailing in quantitative terms under which the official prohibition on distance sales of medicines is set. AIM: The aim of this study is a detailed examination of the nature of the prohibition of the medicines distance selling in Ukraine, namely the an analysis of advantages and disadvantages of this form of distribution of medicines and identification of appropriate ways for gradual repeal of the prohibition in terms of regulatory reform in Ukraine in the sphere of circulation of medicines due to the process of adaptation of statutory regulation in this area to the EU legislation. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study is based on Ukrainian regulation acts, Council Directives 97/7/EC, 2000/31/EC, 2001/83/EC, scientific works and opinions of progressiveminded people in this sphere. Such methods as dialectical, comparative, analytic, synthetic and comprehensive have been used in the article. CONCLUSION: Reception of the described experience of regulation in EU will allow a further review of the principles of regulation in Ukraine in the sphere of medicines with a shift in the main emphasis in the direction of ensuring adequate consumer rights in this area and preventing the risks of patients' and public health.