Ukraine will cancel registration of medicines produced in certain countries - Yatseniuk

Ukraine intends to cancel the procedure of registration for medicines and medical goods, which passed registration and were licensed in the EU, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan.

"We will cancel the bureaucratic and corrupt system of registration for medicines and medical goods, which have passed registration and licensing in these countries. To do this, the law on medicines will be amended," Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said at a cabinet meeting.

As reported, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in September signed the law that simplifies the procedure of registration for certain drugs and the access of the so called orphan drugs, which got this status in the United States and the EU, to the Ukrainian market. The matter concerns drugs for the treatment of such diseases as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, severe cancer, and rare diseases.

The law also complements the list of unregistered medicines, which can be imported to the customs territory of Ukraine, drugs intended for the treatment of rare (orphan) diseases that are in the prescribed manner approved for use in the United States or the EU regardless of whether they are registered in Ukraine or not.