Deputies of the Guatemalan Congress ask that the agreement that regulates the commercialization of antibiotics and ophthalmological steroids, recently approved by the Executive Branch, be repealed.
Controversy between representatives of the legislature and the executive began after the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS) approved Agreement 181-2019 on August 7, 2019, which stipulates that antimicrobial drugs (oral and parenteral antibiotics) and ophthalmic steroids must be sold with a prescription. See full agreement.
The law was one of the conditions in the CAFTA negotiations and granted intellectual property rights for the creation of new seeds to those who succeeded in obtaining them.
The Law on Protection of New Plant Varieties, known as "Monsanto Law" was adopted on June 3, 2014 and the Congress of Guatemala decided after pressure from various social sectors to repeal it.
Advisors of the U.S. Embassy and experts in renewable energy and gasoline additives advise legislation on mixing gasoline and ethanol and eliminating the additives MMT and MTB.
From a statement issued by the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala:
The Congress approved the 2009 budget yesterday, and must now approved its distribution.
Members of Congress must now approve the articles of the budget which is divided in three. Yesterday they only managed to approved the first two sections of the project, which contains articles 1 and 2, respectively; an amendment to latter by the Finance Commission was approved, while another presented by the PP was not.
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