Lawyer
Dr. Rainer Herzig
Partner

Phone: +43 (1) 533 16 95
+43 (1) 533 16 95 - 599
Mail: herzig@preslmayr.at
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Career

  • 1982 Doctor Juris, University of Vienna
  • 1983/1984 studies at Lausanne University, Switzerland
  • 1989 admitted to bar
  • 1990 partner with Preslmayr Attorneys at Law

Publications

Austria - Pharma & Medical Device Regulation, Dezember 2023
Amendment to Austrian Act on Pharmaceuticals in view of EU Clinical Trials Regulation, April 2022
Assisted suicide: new Act on Death Directives, February 2022
Covid-19: mandatory vaccination, January 2022
New Medical Device Act in Austria, October 2021
Strict advertising rules for (foreign) dentists, September 2021
No profit from blood donations, June 2021
Court dismisses complaint against limitations on sale of medicinal products, April 2021
Ascertainment of (dis)conformity of in vitro diagnostics, March 2021
Medical information duty: what constitutes reasonable steps to contact a patient?, February 2021
Restriction of freedom in nursing homes due to risk of COVID-19 infection, January 2021
Reimbursement for medicine not listed in Reimbursement Code?, October 2020
Constitutional Court overrules COVID-19 restrictions, September 2020
Relevance of expert guidelines for assessing medical malpractice, July 2020
Leucopenia medicine and reimbursement code, March 2020
Digital health: proposal to amend Health Telematics Act, Februar 2020
'Medical meets Beauty' – recent decision on dental sector advertising, November 2019
Alternative medical treatments and compassionate use, September 2019
Maintaining original medicinal products in Reimbursement Code, July 2019
Cannabidiol in food and cosmetic, May 2019
Amendment to Act on the Medical Profession, January 2019
Misleading comparative advertising of drugs, November 2018
No liability for in-depth specialist knowledge, November 2018
Detox capsules, September 2018
Spiritual healing – no (illegal) quackery, Juni 2018
Fat-burning injections – medical information from beauticians, April 2018
Medical confidentiality and right to refuse to give evidence, February 2018
No outer packaging required? November 2017
Healthcare Enforcement & Litigation

Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. Getting the Deal Through: Healthcare Enforcement & Litigation 2018, (published in September 2017; contributing editors: Michael K Loucks, Jennifer L Bragg and Alexandra M Gorman, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) For further information please visit gettingthedealthrough.com

Assessing demand for public pharmacies – a never-ending story, October 2017
New price cap for medicinal products, July 2017
Nepafenac – no SPC for composition medicines, April 2017
Medicinal products by presentation, January 2017
Recommendations: line between providing information and advertising, November 2016
Patient wins compensation for lost surgical scissors, August 2016
Liability of apparent manufacturer of a medical device, March 2016
ECJ rules on date of first authorisation, January 2016
Supreme Court rules on advertising of dentist's mobile surgery, December 2015
Cranberry tablets – food or medicine? September 2015
Supplementary protection certificate for carrier protein? August 2015
Supreme Court rules on nutritional advice by 'bioenergeticians', June 2015
New rules on reproductive medicine, April 2015
Pneumococci vaccination campaign, January 2015
Can patients receive refund for alternative medical treatment abroad? November 2014
New practical training concept for trainee doctors, August 2014
Demand assessment for public pharmacies, July 2014
Device or product? Court examines photodynamic oncology therapy, Mai 2014
Teeth bleaching can be carried out only by dentists, February 2014
Getting the Deal Through – Life Sciences 2014
Patient data for sale: did physicians break the law? November 2013
Supreme Court finds mail-order pharmacy guilty of misleading advertising, September 2013
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Ministry of Health proposes bill on healthcare reform, May 2013
New guidance on compassionate use programmes published March 2013
New legislation on advertising of medicinal products fails to match EU law, January 2013
Dentist's spring promotion found to bring profession into disrepute
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