Quality and safety as the main legal categories in the functioning of the common market of medicines in the Eurasian economic Union

Lomakina Alina Amadovna

Since January 2017, the pharmaceutical market has been declared the first common market within the Eurasian economic Union (EEU). General conditions for the circulation of medicines are designed to be optimal for development and increasing competitiveness. It is assumed that these integration processes should ensure the quality of medicines in circulation and the safety of the consumer. The main legal categories from which the functioning of the common market of medicines is based are quality, safety and effectiveness. The author considers the content of the categories «quality» and «safety» as forming a structural and logical system of normative legal regulation of the functioning of the common market of medicines in the EEU.

Keywords:medicines, national drug markets, quality and safety of medicines, regulatory framework, formation of a single market of drugs in the Eurasian economic union.