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By Nigar Abbasova

The parliamentary committee on public heath held its session on June 7. Issues on the highest agenda included amendments to the law on medicinal products and the Code of administrative offences.

Ahliman Amiraslanov, chairman of the committee, said that the country has already taken certain measures towards improving quality of medicament, price settlement as well as prevention of problems occurring in the sphere of import of medicament. The chairman underlined that previously prices for medicine in different pharmacies were varying, but currently the situation is different. The country has managed to bring the situation under control and the prices were adjusted.

Tariff council has already regulated the prices of 900 medicine in accordance with the presidential order.

“We have faced a necessity to make changes to the law on medicinal products,” he stressed. The main objective of the changes is to provie control over approved prices and increase of accountability.

Amiraslanov added that the changes to the Code of Administrative Offences are also under consideration. The proposed changes envisage imposing a fine for the sell, storage, distribution and import of low-quality medicine which do not comply with the norms and specifications of technical standard documents, medicine unknown origin or expired term of use as well as fabricated medicine.

In accordance with the changes, the penalty for the deeds will range from 500 to 2,000 manats ($332 – $1.331) for executives and amount to form 5,000 to 7,000 manats ($3.328 – $4.659) for legal entities.

Both clauses were proposed for the consideration during plenary meeting of Milli Mejlis [Azerbaijan Parliament] under the condition of removal of shortcomings.

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Nigar Abbasova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @nigyar_abbasova

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