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Norway: Directorate for Medical Products (DMP)
Audience: administrators-policy, researchers-scientists ยท Review state: published
The national authority
The Directorate for Medical Products, known by its Norwegian initials DMP and formerly called the Norwegian Medicines Agency, is Norway's national regulatory authority for medicines and medical devices.
Norway participates in the European single market through its economic-area membership, so the directorate works within the European regulatory network while overseeing a market that imports most of its medicines.
How products enter the market
Medicines require marketing authorization through national or European procedures after evaluation of quality, safety and efficacy, and establishments are licensed and inspected by the directorate.
Post-market work includes safety monitoring within the European alert network, and Norway's national health-data registers support strong medicine-use and safety research.
Regional and international role
The directorate is a member of the European regulatory network through Norway's economic-area membership and cooperates closely with Nordic neighbors on supply security.
Its register-based research and Nordic shortage-cooperation work are watched by other small, high-income markets.
Using this profile
The directorate publishes regulations, registers and alerts in Norwegian, with English material, through its official portal, which is the primary source for current rules and listed in this profile's internal reference record.
For cross-country comparison: Norway illustrates the network-member regulator outside the union: full participation in European medicines work through an economic-area agreement.
Limitations
Educational profile of a national regulatory system, current as of drafting. It simplifies routes and classes and is not legal, regulatory, or clinical advice. Filing and compliance decisions must be confirmed against the authority's current published rules and, where needed, professional regulatory counsel.