Luanda – Angola has announced plans to create a Medicine Regulatory and Health Technology Agency, tasked with licensing, ensure quality control, safety and efficiency of medicines.
The creation of this public body was approved at at 3rd Ordinary Session of the Cabinet Council, chaired by the president João Lourenço.
The body will also develop guidelines to direct and regulate the efficient functioning of facilities and organs of the sector, according to final communiqué of the Cabinet.
The participants in the meeting also approved issues related to the sector of Justice, Oil, Energy and Water, Territorial Planning and Foreign Affairs.
The session also approved agreements between Angola and the United Arab Emirates on the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments as well as Angolan and Japanese Government in the field of Technical Cooperation and the Japanese Overseas Cooperation Programme.
The agreements between the Angolan and Spanish governments, in the field of Reciprocal Investment Protection, and between Angola and Portugal on the Remunerated Activities of Members of the Family of Diplomatic and Consular Staff, were approved.
The Council reviewed the submission to the National Assembly of the Proposed Organic Law of the Supreme Court.
The session also analysed the sending to Parliament of the Draft Law on the General Regime of Independent Administrative Entities.
