Article 1. Subject of Regulation of This Federal Law

1. This Federal Law regulates relations arising in connection with circulation, i.e. development, preclinical testing, clinical trials, expert examination, evaluation, state registration, standardization and quality control, manufacture, compounding, storage, transportation, import into the Russian Federation, export from the Russian Federation, advertising, dispensation, distribution, transfer, use and destruction of medicines.

2. This Federal Law establishes the priority of the state control of safety, quality and efficacy of medicines in the process of their circulation.