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Presidential Decree reduces bureaucracy in pharmacy licensingThe President of the Republic Joo Manuel Gonalves Loureno authorized the implementation of a set of measures in the domain of licensing of pharmaceutical activity in response to the challenges launched by the Project for Simplification of Acts and Procedures of Public Administration SIMPLIFICA 1.0.Through Presidential Decree No. 20221 of 26 August Joo Manuel Gonalves Loureno directed the elimination of the requirement to individuals of eight documents and three procedures previously mandatory to obtain authorization for the exercise of pharmaceutical activity.As a result the requirement of requirements such as i Technical Opinion of the Municipal Health Department ii Criminal Registration Certificate iii Commercial Registration Certificate iv Copy of the Tax Identification Number is discontinued v Contract of employment of technicians vi Certificate of Habitability vii Certificate of Statistical Registration as well as vii Commercial Permit.Additionally the period of validity of the License to Exercise Pharmaceutical Activity was extended from 2 two to 5 five years and the requirement that imposed a distance of 500 meters between two pharmacies was eliminated.Finally the Presidential Decree instituted the integrated procedure that imposes the joint inspection of the Health Commerce and Fire departments in the act of licensing a Pharmacy eliminating the inspection model in which each of the sectors intervened separately and at different times. The discontinuation of the requirement for these documents and procedures was proposed under the SIMPLIFICA 1.0 Project a gradual implementation initiative presented publicly last May as the first phase of a set of others aimed at reducing bureaucracy modernizing the Public Administration and therefore to make life easier for citizens.
