President
Based on the Constitution
and as adopted by the People's Assembly at its meeting held on the date of 20-2-1426 A.H., 30-3-2005, my birth.

The following are issued:

Article 1

The expressions listed below shall mean the meanings set out for each of them wherever they are contained in this Law:
• Ministry of Health
• Minister: Minister of Health
• Company, company, laboratory or laboratory: is a company, company, plant, manufacturer, and manufacturer of pharmaceutical products intended for human use within or outside the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.
• The scientific bureau of information and medical publicity registered assets in the Ministry of Health, whether it is for a company, several companies, a laboratory or several local, Arab, foreign, or joint labs for local, Arab or foreign companies and labs.
• Scientific director: He is the pharmacist who has a permanent license to practise the profession and who manages the scientific office technically.
• Publicity Delegate: He is the doctor, pharmacist or dentist registered in the register of medical advertising delegates at the Ministry of Health and the concerned guild.

Article 2

A decision is authorized by the minister to open scientific offices of a company or laboratory in a group of companies or laboratories that produce medicines and pharmaceuticals and include their activity:
a. Distribution of locally manufactured or imported free medical models to human physicians, dentists, hospitals, health centres and accredited scientific research institutions.
b. Distribution of all publicity materials from leaflets, books, magazines, medical science publications, scientific videos, and all related to medical publicity and means.

Article 3

The technical conditions for the opening of scientific offices will be issued by the minister after taking the opinion of the minister of local administration and the environment.

Article 4

The coefficient of medicines or companies individually or collectively bears the payment of all wages, compensation and expenses incurred by the scientific office in accordance with the regulations in force.

Article 5

Scientific offices shall not be registered in the commercial register or register of branches of domestic or foreign companies as a scientific profession and shall not be entitled to trade in medicines, pharmaceutical or chemical preparations or to engage in any other work that is not related to medical publicity work or to any work or Another business activity.

Article 6

The Scientific Director and all medical publicity workers of the Scientific Office shall be required to work for the work of the Office in accordance with the provisions of this Law and not to engage in any other work.

Article 7

The Minister will issue a decision to determine the fee for the permission to open the scientific office and to renew it annually in agreement with the Minister of Finance.

Article 8

The work of the medical propaganda business is closed without permission to open a scientific office. Its assets are confiscated by decision of the minister, executed through the public prosecution, and referred to the judiciary, punishable by three months to two years' imprisonment and a fine from 10000 to 50,000 Syrian pounds.

Article 9

The Minister issued a decision to temporarily close the Scientific Office on the basis of the reports submitted to it, indicating that the required conditions were not available and would be reopened only by decision of the Minister after ascertaining the availability of such conditions.

Article 10

It is referred to the judiciary and is punishable by imprisonment from six months to one year and a fine from 1000 to 2000 Syrian pounds. Everyone who carries out the medical publicity work provided for in this law without being registered in the medical journal of the Ministry of Health.

Article 11

Every other violation of the provisions of this law shall be referred to the judiciary, punishable by a fine from 5000 to 20,000 Syrian pounds, or prohibited from engaging in occupation for a period not exceeding one year or one of these.

Article 12

The Ministry of Health shall, through its organs, supervise and supervise the scientific offices to verify the application of the provisions of this Law and the instructions issued to implement it.

Article 13

The Minister shall issue the executive instructions, regulatory decisions and conditions necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this Act.

Article 14

All existing scientific offices shall be aligned with the provisions of this Act within a maximum of six months.

Article 15

Legislative Decree No. 161 No. 161 of 5-7-1965 and the decisions made in the implementation of its provisions are repealed.

Article 16

This law is published in the Official Journal.
Damascus at 27-2-1426 A.H., 6-4-2005, my birthday

President
Bashar al-Assad

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