Inappropriate financial or material benefits, including inappropriate hospitality, should not be offered to healthcare professionals to influence them in the prescription of pharmaceutical products.

Promotional items of insignificant value, provided free of charge, are permissible as long as they are related to the health care provider's work and/or entail a benefit to patients.

Text - or reference-books/information, and other educational material may be given to health care providers if they serve a genuine educational function.