According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 80% of world population uses traditional medicine to treat their primary health care needs. WHO has promoted the scientific study of plants used in ethnomedicine, on the basis that would eliminate unsafe practices and promote only those that are safe and effective. Which is the problem associated to this situation? Clearly, the proliferation of sales without authorization, hygienic conditions, safety or quality controls. In many cases the MP were marketed with a different identity to that proclaimed, with pharmacological recommendation, or they also were imposed as ?fashions?, from other countries. Different preparations of plants were sold at the same conditions to those mentioned for MP. The lack of specific regulations allowed manufacturers and importers to impose their own requirements, were these appropriated or not. This, that was a world tendency, had however, diverse reactions in the States control level. In some countries the Sanitary Authorities took the situation as a problem and started elaborating regulations to give a regulatory framework to the related sanitary problems.Within the framework of the Project ?Plantas Medicinales y Medicamentos Fitoterápicos, situación actual en el MERCOSUR?, from the Project ?Apoyo al Programa de Movilidad MERCOSUR en Educación Superior, Línea Prioritaria 2, Convocatoria de propuestas EuropeAid/130695/M/ACT/R06, Contrato de Subvención N° 20?; having as reference the Directive 2001/83/CE of the European Parliament and Council, and its amending (Directive 2004/04/CE, as regards traditional herbal medicinal products), a group of MERCOSUR universities leaded by the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, proposed as an objective to develop a comparative analysis among the current regulations on the subject matter in MERCOSUR and in those of the European Union. To fulfill the objective, a strategy of qualitative type was used as a methodology to face the arisen problems. Research Documental Techniques were developed. From the current regulations in the MERCOSUR, it can be stated that in Uruguay there is a total lack of regulations in relation to PM and Phytotherapic Medicaments (PhyM), since to the present any regulation has been approved in relation to those topics. In view of the dissimilarity in the current regulations, the lack of them in Uruguay and the precarity in Paraguay, the conformed university net will work by virtue of its educational Mission, and as a part of the previously mentioned Project, in favor to collaborate in the harmonization of the policy framework existent in the MERCOSUR by means of elaborating a document that will be presented to the different countries Ministeries with the conclusions reached.
