Moreover, Tunisia has strengthened its legal system with the promulgation of the above mentioned Act, under which the Tunisian Financial Analysis Committee was established in the Tunisian Central Bank for the purpose of monitoring suspicious operations and transactions.

With regard to coordination and the exchange of experiences with the relevant international mechanisms and organizations, the Tunisian Financial Analysis Committee can make use of its counterparts in the foreign countries with which it has cooperation agreements.

In the pharmaceutical and biomedical sector there are nine pharmaceutical wholesalers, 12 medical promotion agencies, 236 private offices (of which 70 per cent are in Conakry), 40 points of sale distributed among prefectures of the interior, and 10 biomedical analysis laboratories.