Gintautas Barcys, director of the State Medicines Control Agency under the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania (SMCA), explains the increasingly significant role of the SMCA on a national and European level and highlights some of the most successful initiatives implemented by the institution over recent years.
Can you please introduce the main obligation of the SMCA as well as the evolution of the institution since your appointment as director back in 2008?
"Expanding on other interesting trends, it is a reality that more and more companies are willing to launch their products to the Baltic region and Lithuania, as the biggest market in the Baltic area, plays a key role on this front."
