The Republic of Ecuador hereby notifies the draft Partial Amendment to the Substitute Sanitary Technical Regulation on the sanitary registration of processed natural products for medicinal use, and good manufacturing practices for pharmaceutical laboratories working with processed natural products for medicinal use, issued pursuant to Resolution No. ARCSA-DE-036-2020-MAFG, published in Official Journal No. 362 on 4 January 2021. The aim of this draft amendment is to establish the quality, safety and efficacy parameters for granting sanitary registration to processed natural products for medicinal use. It also sets out the promotion, control, monitoring and penalty criteria applicable to such products and to the establishments engaged in their manufacture, storage, distribution and marketing. Moreover, it establishes requirements and guidelines for issuing good manufacturing practices certificates to national pharmaceutical laboratories that manufacture, process, package, store, distribute and transport processed natural products.Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior e Inversiones (Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade and Investment)Subsecretaría de la Calidad (Under-Secretariat for Quality)Primary enquiry point:Cristian Eduardo Yépez JaramilloPlataforma Gubernamental de Gestión FinancieraAv. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso PereiraPiso 8Bloque amarilloQuito EC170522Tel.: (+593 2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 or 2252Email…