Drug Price Control Order
Regulation & taxAlso called: DPCO
The order under which the central government controls medicine prices in India, fixing ceiling prices for formulations in the National List of Essential Medicines and capping the annual increase on non-scheduled ones at 10%.
In plain terms
It is why the essential half of an Indian pharmaceutical portfolio behaves nothing like the rest, and why revising the essential medicines list moves products into and out of control without the company doing anything at all. Extraordinary powers to fix prices exist and have been used at short notice.