The 2013 Annual Report of the State Agency of Medicines provides insight in the operation of the Agency

19.06.2014.

The State Agency of Medicines (SAM) has published its Annual Report of the year 2013 which summarises information regarding the operation of the Agency during the previous year.

Some of the numbers that show Agency’s achievements last year:

Marketing authorisations were issued for more than 300 new medicines;
More than 9000 variations were made to marketing authorisations of medicines;
More than 3500 authorisations were issued for distribution of unauthorised medicines in the Republic of Latvia;
More than 1400 authorisations were issued for import/export of narcotic, psychotropic medicines/substances and precursors;
More than 110 authorisations were issued for distribution of parallel imported medicines;
59 new authorisations for conduct of clinical trials were issued in 2013;
A total number of 237 clinical trials in Latvia in 2013;
375 adverse drug reaction reports were received;
The Medicines Examination Laboratory tested 130 samples of medicines, 103 samples of purified water and prepared 500 volumetric solutions, indicators and reagents upon requests from pharmacies in 2013;
353 announcements were registered regarding medical devices’ placement on the market of the Republic of Latvia;
47 Certificates of Free Sale and 51 Certificates of Pharmaceutical Product were issued;
Licences were issued to 248 pharmacies and 27 medicines wholesalers.