Chương 2 Nghị định 79/2006/NĐ-CP: Chính sách của Nhà nước về lĩnh vực dược

Chapter II

STATE POLICIES ON PHARMACY

Article 4.- Pharmaceutical projects entitled to investment preferences

Pharmaceutical projects shall enjoy investment preferences in capital, land, tax and other preferences under the provisions of law, including:

1. Projects aiming to develop the pharmaceutical industry into a spearhead econo-technical branch:

a/ Projects specified in Clause 1, Article 3 of the Pharmacy Law;

b/ Investment projects on construction of establishments for bio-equivalence experiment, drug utility assessment; pharmaceutical establishments satisfying good practice standards on production, preservation, test, distribution of drugs, clinical test of drug, cultivation, gathering and processing of materia medica.

2. Projects aiming to develop sources of materia medica and production of drugs therefrom:

a/ Projects on cultivation of materia medica, exploitation of meteria medica from nature, conservation and development of pharmaceutical gens sources;

b/ Projects on research into, proving scientific grounds and compiling standards for testing eastern drug prescriptions; survey and statistics on kinds of materia medica for drug production; collection, inheritance, popularization and rational application of eastern drug prescriptions; search for, and exploitation of the use of, new materia medica, export of materia medica.

Article 5.- Forms of support in drugs

1. Policy beneficiaries, ethnic minority areas, regions meeting with exceptional socio-economic difficulties, regions meeting with socio-economic difficulties shall enjoy drug prices not higher than the prices of drugs sold in mountainous communes, enjoy drug money exemption, reduction or supports as well as other regimes and policies on drug supports under the provisions of law.

2. The Health Ministry shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Nationality Committee and the Finance Ministry, based on the requirements and policies on drug supports in each period, in studying the amendment and supplementation of drug support forms, regimes and policies provided for in Clause 1 of this Article, and submitting them to the Prime Minister for decision.

Article 6.- Planning on drug circulation, distribution and supply networks

Based on the tasks of socio-economic development of the country in each period, the Health Ministry shall formulate plannings and plans on development of drug circulation, distribution and supply nationwide, attaching special importance to deep-lying and remote regions, in order to ensure adequate drugs of good quality at reasonable prices, meeting people's drug demands and submit them to the Prime Minister for decision; organize the implementation of such plannings and plans after they are approved by the Prime Minister.

Article 7.- Safe, rational and efficient use of drugs, prevention and control of side effects of drugs

1. The Health Ministry shall have to stipulate the prescription, guide the safe, rational and efficient use of drugs; apply measures to prevent and control harmful effects of drugs.

2. The Health Ministry shall coordinate with the Ministry of Culture and Information in providing information on, propagating and guiding the safe, rational and efficient use of drugs within the community.

3. People's Committees at all levels shall have to direct, organize and monitor the implementation of provisions on drug information and advertisement; intensify the supply of information on, propagate and guide the safe, rational and efficient use of drugs; inspect and control drug trading in their respective geographical areas.