In Mauritius, there are legal provisions establishing the powers and responsibilities of the MRA. The MRA is a part of the MoH and of a semi-autonomous agency with the following functions: Marketing authorization/registration, inspection, import control, licensing, marketing control, medicines advertising and promotion, clinical trials controls, and pharmacovigilance.
The MRA does not receive any external technical assistance to support its activities. Funding for the MRA is provided through the regular government budget. This body does not utilize a computerized information management system to store and retrieve information on processes that include registrations, inspection and other regulatory functions (World Health Organization, 2011).