# Agjencia Kombëtare e Barnave dhe Pajisjeve Mjekësore

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## TL;DR

Albania's medicines regulator. It registers, tests and inspects medicines and medical devices and runs the country's system for reporting side effects.

## Summary

The Agjencia Kombëtare e Barnave dhe Pajisjeve Mjekësore is the state institution responsible for control of medicines in Albania and works under the Ministry of Health. Its history page traces it to the State Laboratory for Drug Control created in 1965; it became the National Centre for Drug Control in 1993, gained inspection and registration sectors after the 1994 law on medicines, and took its present name under Law 105/2014 on medicines and pharmaceutical service. Its mission covers pharmacovigilance, approval of medicines advertising, registration of medical devices and inspection of medicines and devices, and its sectors include marketing authorisation and regulatory affairs, inspection and a control laboratory. It publishes the register of medicines and safety communications to health professionals. The coordinates are OpenStreetMap's point for Rruga e Dibrës in Tirana, the street of its address (359/1), not the building.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: AKBPM; National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices, Albania
- City: Tirana, AL
- Type: government
- Website: https://akbpm.gov.al/

## Sources

- AKBPM: home page: https://akbpm.gov.al/
- AKBPM: mission (in Albanian): https://akbpm.gov.al/akbpm-3/misioni/
- AKBPM: history (in Albanian): https://akbpm.gov.al/akbpm-3/historiku/

## Connected records

- institutions: [Fondi i Sigurimit të Detyrueshëm të Kujdesit Shëndetësor](https://onco.cc/institutions/fsdksh-albania/), [University Hospital Center "Mother Teresa", Tirana](https://onco.cc/institutions/mother-teresa-hospital-tirana/)

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