Belgium has issued a decree permitting for restrictions on the export of medicines within the occasion of a disaster, the nation’s well being minister mentioned Monday.
Frank Vandenbroucke informed Belgian tv station LN24 that the decree gives a authorized framework for a short lived ban on the export of sure important medicines.
Such a listing has not but been drawn up and revealed, however preparations are being made in case the stress on the provision of medicines in Belgium will increase additional, he mentioned.
Later within the day, he issued a press release clarifying the main points of the decree.
He mentioned the decree permits the federal government to restrict exports in occasion of their unavailability, if they’re important medicines, or if there may be an emergency.
The ban will apply to important medicine which have a major impression on a affected person’s life and for which there isn’t a different accredited drug with the identical therapeutic impact.
The export ban will happen when the unavailability of those important medicines is recorded by the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products as “probable” or “certain” for a minimum of one month, it added.
