The State Institute for Drug Control (SIDC) in Bratislava is the institution of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic responsible for ensuring surveillance of the quality, efficacy and safety of medicinal products for human use and medicinal products used in health care.
In accordance with the laws SIDC, among other things, has SIDC the following responsibilities:
- controls, standardizes and evaluates the process of assessing the quality, efficacy and safety of drugs
- supervises pharmacies, wholesalers, manufacturers of medicinal products and medical devices
- prepares assessment reports on medicinal products for human use
- issues marketing authorizations - performs pharmacovigilance and vigilance in the field of medical devices
- performs withdrawal or suspension of marketing or marketing authorization of medicinal products or medical devices
- controls advertisement of medicinal products and infant milk formula
- performs inspections of GMP, GLP, GCP and Good Pharmacy Practice
- keeps database of registered drugs and medicinal devices
- acts in the field of training and education
