Excerpt from the Ministry of Health's Approval (Departmental) Order of the Guide Regarding the Commercial Names of the Drugs for Human Use
January 17, 2006
On 28th of December 2005 the Ministry of Health issued the (departmental) order no. 1452 which has entered into force on 11th of January 2006, pursuant to its publication in Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, No.26/January 11, 2006.
The most significant provisions of the order are enumerated further on:
The commercial name of the drug/medicine may be an invented name, a common or scientific name and must be conceived in such a way / so that not to determine / cause / induce confusion with the common name;
The utilization of a trademark offers the consumer the possibility to identify a drug/medicine as originating from a certain source and has a greater commercial importance;
The utilization of a trademark must not lead to confusion as to whom is responsible for the commercial launching of the drug; OMS recommends that the invented name is not to derive from DCI or from DCI's root;
Invented names for the products with a different qualitative composition as to the active substances must differ with minimum 3 letters;