Law No. 07/NA on Drugs and Medical Products (Amended).

This Law, consisting of 49 articles divided into eleven Parts, determines the principles, rules and measures relating to the use, management, monitor and inspection of drugs and medical products with the aims to ensure the supply of drugs and medical products of good quality, efficacy, safety with appropriate prices in order to prevent diseases and to provide treatment to all people for their good health, contributing to the national protection and development. A drug is any substances, or any composite substances with active and non-active ingredients, which is used for the prevention and treatment of diseases, identification and diagnosis of diseases, relief of pain, modification, improvement, support, supplement, cure or change of body functions, human physical and mental health rehabilitation. Drug consists of modern drug and traditional medicine. A medical product is any things or any substances which is used for medical purposes, including any product of general use in society, such as medical devices, health supplements, cosmetics, controlled chemicals and dangerous chemicals for household use.
The State promotes and encourages all people to access to drug and medical product affairs through the use of medicinal resource potential and encourages all economic sector, both domestic and foreign sector, to invest in cultivating, growing, protecting, conserving, exploiting, purchasing, researching, analyzing, testing, processing of semi-finished and finished drugs and medical products in good quality and standard for domestic use, substitution of import and for export, for creation favorable conditions for recruitment of employees and appropriated funding of such activities. The State promotes the integration of the use between modern drugs and traditional medicines effectively and safely in disease prevention and treatment and encourages the integration, use and development of traditional medicines in the heath service system. The drug and medical product activities shall be carried out in compliance with the main principles as follows: 1. Produce the drugs and medical products in accordance with the standards; 2. Ensure the quality, effectiveness, safety and appropriated prices for the supply and storage of drug and medical products; 3. Use of drugs and medical products rationally, in conformity with the medical principles and physician prescription; 4. Produce and use of drugs and medical products in junction with protection of environment and ensure the sustainability of medicinal natural resources. This Law applies to individuals, legal entities or organizations that live and carries out drugs and medical products activities in the Lao PDR only.