OBJECTIVES: The European Union Member States (EU MS) are seeking for effective cost-containment measures to ensure sustainability of health care systems. With growing budget impact of costly biologic medicines, biosimilar promises for health care cost-savings are thoroughly scrutinised by payers. This study aimed to provide an overview of biosimilar policies implemented in selected EU MS. METHODS: Ten EU MS pharmaceutical markets (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and UK) were selected. A comprehensive review of the literature was performed to identify publications describing 1) supply-side policies and 2) demand-side policies in place in the selected countries through Medline, Embase, Cochrane library databases, GaBi, ISPOR and HTAi websites, National Health Authorities websites and grey literature. RESULTS: CONCLUSIONS: Important heterogeneity was seen between (even within) selected countries in policies towards biosimilars; information was generally scarce on educative measures implemented to enhance biosimilar adoption by different stakeholders. This heterogeneity might contribute to explain differences in biosimilar uptakes reported across EU MS.