In its April 2019 newsletter, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) announced that the steering committee on guidelines modernisation would hold its final meeting on 13 May 2019, to discuss both a draft report of its deliberations and the working group's final report (released 6 March 2019). Once the steering committee's report has been finalised and the regulatory amendments have been published in Part II of the Canada Gazette (which was expected this spring), the PMPRB will release its draft guidelines for public consultation.

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