Formed September 10, 2014 | Legal jurisdiction Ukraine | |
Preceding agency State Service for the Control of the Circulation of Narcotics Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Governing body Ministry of Healthcare (Ukraine) General nature Law enforcement
Civilian agency | ||
The State Drugs and Medications Control Service (Ukrainian: Державна служба України з лікарських засобів та контролю за наркотиками) is a national law enforcement agency of executive authority responsible for drafting state policy, legal regulation, control and monitoring in combating trafficking drugs, psychotropic substances, medications and their precursors. The Service is specially authorized to address and solve problems relating to traffic in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their precursors; the Service is also authorized to combat the illicit drug trafficking. Commonly was known as The Drugs Control Service (Derzhavna Sluzhba Narcocontrolya).
The Service was formed on September 10, 2014 by Cabinet Resolution No. 442 by the merge of the State Service for Drugs Control (Державна слу́жба Украї́ни з контро́лю за нарко́тиками) and the State Service of Medicines (Державна служба України з лікарських засобів).
The service is formed for implementation of state policy in the areas of:
The activities of this body is directed and coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, directly and through the Minister of Healthcare.