The 2014 Annual Report of the State Agency of Medicines provides insight in the operation of the Agency
| |  The 2014 Annual Report of the State Agency of Medicines provides insight in the operation of the Agency
The State Agency of Medicines (SAM) has published its Annual Report of the year 2014 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 almost 300 new medicines;
- 9479 variations were made to marketing authorisations of medicines;
- 4138 authorisations were issued for distribution of unauthorised medicines in the Republic of Latvia;
- More than 1500 authorisations were issued for import/export of narcotic, psychotropic medicines/substances and precursors;
- 87 authorisations were issued for distribution of parallel imported medicines;
- 53 new authorisations were issued for conduct of clinical trials;
- 267 clinical trials took place in Latvia in 2014;
- 290 adverse drug reaction reports were received;
- The Medicines Examination Laboratory tested 135 samples of medicines, 106 samples of purified water and prepared 760 volumetric solutions, indicators and reagents upon requests from pharmacies;
- 271 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;
- 346 licences for the activity of pharmacies, 25 licences for medicines wholesalers, 16 licences for medicines manufacturing or import and one license for manufacturing of the active substance were issued.
The 2014 Annual Report of the State Agency of Medicines is available in the section “Publications” of the SAM website www.zva.gov.lv. |
