Applications are expected to open this year for licensing operators who will be allowed to cultivate and process cannabis in the country for medical purposes.
The responsible ministries continued to approve procedures for making payments for the license fee for operators, as well as rules for quality control and product packaging.
The joint instruction of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance and Economy "On the procedure for paying the license fee for the production of cannabis for medical purposes and the manner of using this fee" has been approved in the Official Gazette.
The fee set out in Article 14, point 9, of Law No. 61/2023, "On the control of the cultivation and processing of the Cannabis plant and the production of its by-products for medical and industrial purposes" is 100,000 lek. This fee is non-refundable.
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