The repository of legislation on risk factors offers Member States organized, systematized, and updated legal information on the main risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This information system is an integral component of PAHO’s REGULA initiative. It is the product of broad multidisciplinary research on public sources of information on legislation and regulations in 19 Latin American countries, compiled by PAHO. (Read more)

27 Normative Acts

Ley que modifica la Ley núm. 28705, ley . general para la prevención y control de los riesgos del consumo del tabaco, para adecuarse al convenio marco de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (oms) para el control del tabaco
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Publication date: 02/04/2010
Organ issuer: Legislative Branch
Act scope: National / Peru
Changes Law 28705, of 05 of April of 2006  (artículos 3, 4, 7 y 11)
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Control del tabaquismo
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Publication date: 10/03/2008
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Act scope: National / Uruguay
(artículo 7º) Has been changed by Law 19244, of 08 of July of 2014 
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Resolucion por la cual se prohibe fumar dentro de las instalaciones administrativas y asistenciales, hospitales, ambulatorios y cualesquiera otros establecimientos o servicios desalud, tanto del sector publico como privado
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Publication date: 20/06/2000
Organ issuer: Ministry of Social Development
Act scope: Federal / Venezuela
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