subordinate to the joint decision of the council of the Association of Pharmacists and the
Inspector Pharmacist.
Notification for temporary or definitive canceling shall be sent by mail in a registered
envelope. Ministers responsible for Finance, and Commerce as well as the Court Clerk
Accountant from where the register has been delivered shall be kept informed.
Article: 15
Decisions taken by the Minister in charge of Health concerning the temporary or definitive
closing of a pharmaceutical establishment shall be liable to appeal before competent
administrative jurisdictions
Article: 16
Any rectification of one of the constituent elements of the application for authorization shall
be subjected to a prior statement issued by the Minister responsible for Health. Silence of
the administration at the end of for four months equals authorization to rectify
Article: 17
Cession of activities of a pharmaceutical establishment shall be notified to the Minister
responsible for Health and to the Clerk Accountant of the place where their establishment is
exploiting within the following 30 days at the latest. The public will be informed by means
of notice, legibly written, in at least one of the official languages, and visibly sticked up for
a period of at least three months and under the responsibility and at the owner's possible
expenses, at the main entrance of the exploitation site.
In default of public display, and in case the premises would be assigned to function which
prevents the public from having free access to them, the notice will be published in at least
two monthly newspapers published in Rwanda.
Article: 18
Technical conditions of running pharmaceutical establishments, technical conditions of
hygiene and healthiness which should be fulfilled by any of the establishments abovementioned, .as well as requirements of medical and professional nature which should be
followed by people destined to work there, shall be determined by an order issued by the
Minister responsible for health.
Article: 19
The Minister responsible for Health, can, for the sake of public health, impose on
pharmaceutical establishments and all the persons he/she has authorized to deliver
pharmaceutical products, the obligation to have a list of instruments, medico-surgical
material and diagnostic products as well as a minimum quantity of drugs.
Chapter 2. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS