The South-East Asia Regulatory Network (SEARN) is a volunteer association of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of South-East Asia responsible for the regulation of medical products. The current member countries are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste.

Vision: To support timely access to affordable medical products of assured quality, safety and efficacy in all countries of the South-East Asia region and beyond.

Mission: To develop and strengthen regulatory collaboration, convergence and reliance in the South-East Asia region over shared regulatory issues and challenges, that will build trust and capacity, and will enable NRAs to fulfil their mandates and better safeguard public health.

Objectives:

1. Information sharing: Create an enabling environment to enhance communication and information sharing on regulatory policies, guidelines, standards, procedures, outputs and regulated products and entities between NRAs in the region.
2. Systems strengthening: Facilitate and support regulatory capacity development to enhance regulatory skills and competencies and strengthen regulatory systems in the region.
3. Convergence: Promote convergence and alignment of regulatory approaches and requirements based on international standards and good regulatory practices.
4. Collaboration: Identify and develop potential work sharing and reliance processes to help address common work areas and optimize use of existing regulatory capacities and expertise available in the region.