President Iohannis promulgates law on selecting building to serve as headquarters for European Medicine Agency

President Klaus Iohannis promulgated on Monday the law approving Government Emergency Ordinance (OUG) 41/2017 on measures to ensure Romania's participation in the process of relocation of the EU institutions / agencies, through which it mandates the General Secretariat of the Government to identify a building to serve as a headquarters for the European Medicines Agency, an institution to be moved from London in the context of Brexit. 

OUG no. 41/2017 on measures to ensure Romania's participation in the process of relocation of the EU institutions / agencies provides for mandating the Government Secretariat General (SGG) to take steps to identify or select a building necessary for the preparation and participation of Romania in this process. 

To this end, the SGG is taking measures to identify a property from the public or private property of the state. In case no property is identified, it initiates a transparent and non-discriminatory procedure on the market for selecting the building to be rented. The SGG will take measures to include this property in Romania's application file. 

The European Medicine Agency (EMA) is a decentralized body of the EU, with the primary responsibility to protect and promote public health through the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human use. The EMA is also responsible for the scientific evaluation of applications for European marketing authorization for medicines, with the role of stimulating innovation and research in the pharmaceutical sector. 

The country to be hosting the Agency will be voted in November. The EMA will move from London on March 30, 2019 at the latest. 

Also on Monday, the head of state signed decrees on promulgation of the Law approving OUG no. 37/2017 on detaching a public property owned by the state and changing the holders of the right of administration on some real estates - plot of land without public buildings owned by the state, and the Law on the passage of some land plots from the public domain of the state and from the administration of National Administration "Romanian Waters" into the public domain of Crisan and Maliuc communes, Tulcea County. AGERPRES .