Pharmaceutical Industry Blog

Last Updated: August 28, 2026 TL;DR: Eritrea is one of the least documented medicines markets in the world, and the honest starting point is to say so. There is essentially one paragraph of public description of how medicines are registered there – an undated summary on the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation country page – and it tells you two useful things: a first submission to the National Medicines and Food Administration is treated as a new application, and a man

Last Updated: August 28, 2026 TL;DR: Georgia is famous for a seven-working-day medicines registration, and for an Indian manufacturer that headline is the wrong one to read. The Law on Medicines and Pharmaceutical Activities creates two separate routes: a recognition regime, which unilaterally accepts approvals from a fixed list of foreign regulators and skips the scientific assessment entirely, and a national regime, which is a full technical review. The recognised list is s

Last Updated: August 27, 2026 TL;DR: Panama rewrote its medicines law in 2024 and a lot of the advice in circulation is now out of date. Ley 419 de 2024 replaced Ley 1 de 2001 and, unusually, regulates medicines and the public procurement of medicines in a single statute; Decreto Ejecutivo No. 27 de 10 de mayo de 2024 implements it. Registration sits with the Direccion Nacional de Farmacia y Drogas, is filed as a fully digital file, must be lodged by a Panamanian lawyer with

Last Updated: August 27, 2026 TL;DR: Mauritania imports essentially all of its medicines, and the route in is narrower and more specific than most exporters expect. A marketing authorisation, the Autorisation de Mise sur le Marche, is granted by the Minister of Health under Loi n° 2004/036 and is valid for five years; the same law carves out a separate, fee-exempt registration procedure for essential medicines selected through public tender, which is the door most volume actu

Last Updated: August 26, 2026 TL;DR: Kuwait is the Gulf market where price and partner are the same decision, and both are close to irreversible. Medicines are registered by the Pharmaceutical and Herbal Medicines Registration and Control Administration of the Ministry of Health, under Ministerial Decree No. 302/1980 as updated by Ministerial Decree No. 361 of 2019, in a two-stage sequence: the Kuwaiti agent is qualified first, then the marketing authorisation holder and each

Last Updated: August 26, 2026 TL;DR: Costa Rica has two gates, and most first-time exporters only plan for the first one. The Ministerio de Salud grants the sanitary registration that makes your injectable legal to sell – filed on the Registrelo platform, valid for five years, under the Central American technical regulation RTCA 11.03.59, and requiring an apostilled certificate of pharmaceutical product or GMP certificate plus a locally domiciled legal representative. The sec