Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law of Ukraine No. 1637-VII "On medicinal products," which improves the procedure for providing people with medicinal products intended for the treatment of socially dangerous and serious diseases.
According to the president’ s press service, the document simplifies the registration procedure of some medicinal products and provision of medicines that gained the status of orphan drugs in the United States and EU to Ukrainian market. Particularly, these are medicines intended for treatment of tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitides, serious oncological and rare diseases.
“Thus, registration of such medicines through a long and complicated procedure, which in fact repeats procedures undergone in the United States, or EU, is canceled,” reads the statement.
The law also extends the list of unregistered medicinal products that can be brought to Ukraine’s customs territory with medicinal products intended for treatment of orphan diseases, which are allowed in U.S.A. and EU according to an established procedure, whether they are registered by relevant agencies of the above-mentioned countries or not
