On July 12, 2023, Tunisia published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Tunisia (JORT) an important law, Law No. 2 of the year 2023, establishing the “National Agency for Medicines and Health Products “.
The National Medicines Agency is a non-administrative public institution. It is responsible for several missions, mainly the proposal of management policies for medicines and health products as well as the responsibility for granting authorizations for the manufacture, registration, marketing, import and export of these products. It will also play a major role in the quality control of medicines, food supplements, cosmetics, and others.
In practice, this new agency will mainly bring together the following administrations, namely: The Directorate of Pharmacy and Medicine (DPM), the National Center for Pharmacovigilance (CNPV), the National Medicines Control Laboratory (LNCM) as well as the Directorate pharmaceutical inspection (DIP).You can view the JORT law via this link: http://www.iort.gov.tn/WD120AWP/WD120Awp.exe/CTX_9232-6-qfOPckEEEv/RechercheTexte/SYNC_-907551134