- Published: 22. March 2014
22. In March 2014 the new Medicinal Products Act entered into force.
This act regulates the area of medicinal products for use in human and veterinary medicine, defining the conditions and measures for their adequate quality, safety and effectivity assurance, the conditions and procedures for their testing, production, distribution and consumption, their prices, official control, preparation of non-routine prepared medicinal products for advanced therapy and surveillance of the implementation of the provisions of this law for the purpose of protecting public health for medicinal products which are produced industrially or produced in ways including industrial procedure, including pre-mixes for the preparation of veterinary medicated feeding stuffs with active substances used as input substances and for substances which may be used as veterinary medicinal products that have anabolic, anti-infectious, anti-parasitic, anti-inflammatory, hormonal or psychotropic properties and the roles and responsibilities of the Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices (JAZMP).
The law also brings the transfer of the Official Medicines Control Laboratory from JAZMP to the National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food (NLZOH).
This transfer of laboratory activities represents an organisational and technological challenge, which we are going to address in a responsible, active and trustworthy manner.