Member companies of Medicine Producers and Importers Union (MPI Union) of Armenia according to their general activities represent the following groups:
- Medicine Producers,
- Medicine Importers,
- Representations of foreign medicine producer companies.
The congress of Union participants is the highest body of MPI Union management, who has executive jurisdiction to:
- Make changes and additions in the charter of the Union and to establish the charter in new edition,
- Select managers and inspectors of the Union and to terminate their authorities,
- Establish the reports of Union managers and inspectors,
- Establish annual reports and accounting balances of the Union,
- Dismiss Union participants from the Union,
- Make decisions about reorganization and liquidation of the Union,
- Found branches, representation and institutions and to establish annual results of their work.
The executive director heads MPI Union, who:
- Conducts current actions of the Union,
- Signs deals, contracts, agreements and confirms other documents on behalf of the Union,
- Coordinates the activities of the Union subdivisions,
- Hires and dismisses the stuff,
- Gives authorities,
- Represents the Union in relations with other organization,
- Validates the financial documents of the Union.
In the structure of MPI Union operate:
- The permanent (Arbitrate) group, whose function is the examination of disagreements and applications, related with the Code violations of MPI Union Marketing activities.
- “GXP” Scientific Centre of Excellence, the activities of which are:
- Professional training,
- Pre-compliance consulting,
- Assessments,
- Publication of “Pharma Digest” specialized journal of MPI Union,
- Actual services of information,
- Translation services,
- Preparation of publications,
- Electronic library services,
- Consulting services for pharmaceutical and related spheres.
MPI Union organizes its activities through the following working groups:
- Working group for development and strategy planning: studies, develops and presents offers related with; MPI Union activities, elimination of barriers for development and strategic planning of development,
- Working group for policy and legal issues: studies the legal field and the tendencies of state policy of Armenian pharmaceutical sphere, develops and presents proposals for state policy improvement and for the perfection of legislation,
- Working group for quality management: studies the requirements and potentials of quality management sphere in medicine producer and importer companies for standards implementation, develops and presents appropriate proposals,
- Working group for market and marketing issues: studies the tendencies of medicine market and its marketing development, represents proposals related with the industry self-regulation and the regulation of the legislation,
- Working group for exportation and importation: studies conditions and legal field of medicine importation and exportation, develops and presents proposals for the promotion of exportation and for the improvement of the conditions of importation,
- Working group for monitoring and mass media relations: studies the status of pharmaceutical industry development in public relations and the situation of enlightening the problems and developments of the sphere by mass media, develops and presents appropriate proposals.
