Decree no. 199/GOL on Veterinary Medicines.

This Decree, consisting of 72 articles, determines principles, regulations and measures on the management, monitoring and inspecting of veterinary regime to conform business operation and the use of veterinary machines to technical principles, in order to assure productivity, efficiency and life safety of people, animals and environment, and thus contribute to the national development. According to this Decree, veterinary medicines are those preventing diseases, curing and supplementing health of animals and aquatic animals, such as vaccines, anthelminthic, vitamins accurately registered with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and include processed foods medical, chemical substances or semi bio substance medicals, raw medical materials used in veterinary medicines. Other relevant terms defined are: antimicrobials, antibiotics, antimicrobials resistance, ingredients, animal feeds, veterinary medicine book, labels, prescription, counterfeit veterinary medicines, degraded veterinary medicines, pharmacist.
Matters covered by this Decree concern: categorisation and listing of veterinary medicines, including: four categories of veterinary medicines, possession of veterinary medicines, registration of veterinary medicines, exemption to register; standard and safety of veterinary medicines, including: definition of standard, protection of animals’ and users’ health, production of medicines, containers and packaging, labels and documents prescribing medicines, transport and storage, training of human resources, samples and analysis, import, export, transit and sales of medicines; veterinary antimicrobials for animal and aquatic animals, including: definition, list of antimicrobials, principles on the use of antimicrobials; business operation on veterinary medicines, including: types of business, conditions for business operators, rights and duties of a license holder; prohibitions for licensees, government officers and veterinarians, prohibitions to use veterinary medicines; management and inspection, including: rights and duties of veterinarians and of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; incentives for contributors and measures for violators.