Prosecutor’s Office and Health Ministry exchange replies over order of 2010
- 08.12.2011 14:42
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The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) demands annulling an order made by the Ministry of Health in 2010, because it allows selling a series of medications that are not checked by the drug control laboratory of the Medication Agency. The Ministry of Health replies there is no legal reason to demand annulling an order that was abrogated more than a year ago, Info-Prim Neo reports.
In a communiqué, the PGO says the order allows registering pharmaceutical products imported mainly from India, Syria, Vietnam and China before their quality is tested.
The Ministry of Health said that under the legislation, the medications made according to the Good Manufacturing Practice regulations and registered by the European Medicines Agency or in one of the EU member states are authorized without examination, on the basis of an application accompanied by the necessary documents from the producer.
The Ministry considers it’s no use examining additionally the drugs as this creates only inconvenience to the consumers. It stresses that the medications made in China, Vietnam, and Syria do not form part of this preferential category and must be subject to laboratory examination.
In another communiqué, the Prosecutor General’s Office says that Deputy Minister of Health Octavian Grama on December 3, 2010 informed the PGO that the Ministry refuses to abrogate the given order as the prosecutors’ application is unfounded. The PGO says that on the basis of this letter, it submitted a challenge to court, demanding that the order be annulled. When the Supreme Court of Justice examined the case, the Ministry’s representative presented another document, concerning the abrogation of the order, which was signed on December 3, 2010 by Grama. According to the PGO, it is a waste of time to comment on the actions of the Health Ministry that issues contradictory orders the same day, with the deputy minister abrogating an order signed by the minister.
