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The Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO) in the fifth issue of the Newsletter (April 2023) looks back at the celebration of the fourth anniversary of the medicine verification system and looks at the current affairs of the first quarter of 2023.

In the first quarter of 2023, slightly more than 27 million checked packages reached the population. Since the start of the system’s operation in 2019, more than 300 million packages of medicines were checked in the system, according to data collected by the Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO).

The Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO) has compiled the performance indicators of the Latvian Medicines Verification System (LZVS) for the 1st quarter of 2023 regarding the transactions made in the system, end-users and alerts and their most frequent causes.

On April 20 and 21 of this year, the Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO) in cooperation with Arvato Systems GmbH in Riga organized two-day working group seminars for Quality and IT Operations Managers of National Medicines Verification Organisations (NMVOs) to evaluate the achieved results and plan the further development of the medicines verification system.

The European Medicines Verification Organisation (EMVO) has launched a newsletter, which looks back on the past four years of the verification system’s operation, informs about the launch of the European Alert Management System (EAMS) and provides an opportunity to look into the first European Medicines Verification System’s (EMVS) forum, which was also attended by the Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO) representatives Inese Erdmane and Andra Pučko.

On March 23, 2023, a General Assembly of the Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO) was held, where the report on the most significant work done in 2022 was presented, as well as the most pressing issues related to the verification system were discussed.

Šī gada sākumā Arvato Systems GmbH verifikācijas sistēmas valstu grupa, kurā ietilpst arī Latvijas Zāļu verifikācijas organizācija (LZVO), paziņoja par vairākām nozīmīgām izmaiņām grupas darbībā.

Lielbritānijas valdības un Eiropas Komisijas 27. februārī panāktā vienošanās par tirdzniecības nosacījumiem starp Lielbritāniju un Ziemeļīriju ietekmēs arī līdzšinējo zāļu verifikācijas sistēmu.

On February 22, the Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO) held a free seminar for manufacturers of medicines or marketing authorization holders (MAH) on the current developments related to the medicines verification system in Latvia and a look back on what was done in 2022.