What the law says

The definition of an equivalent medicine is contained in law 425 of 1996, which states:" a medicine containing one or more active ingredients, produced industrially, not protected by a patent or complementary certificate, identifed by the International Non-proprietary Name of the active ingredient, or in the absence of such a name, by the scientific name of the medicine followed by the name of the Marketing Authorization Holder, which is bioequivalent to the branded and already authorized medicine that has the same qualitative and quantitative composition in terms of active ingredients, the same pharmaceutical form and the same therapeutic indications".