All Directive 2001/83/EC articles

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    Journal

    Ensuring promotional
    materials’ compliance
    in the EU

    2023-05-18T12:55:00Z

    Directive 2001/83/EC is the EU legislation specifically covering promotional materials for the pharmaceutical industry – notably, Title VIII Advertising and Title VIIIa Information and Advertising. This is in addition to general consumer protection laws and unfair commercial practices regulations and directives. While Directives are legally binding and directly applicable to all companies. Some granularities can be introduced when it is transposed into national legislation by Member States (MS) individual legislatures.

  • Harmonising-HERO
    Journal

    Harmonising regulation of medicinal allergen products throughout the European Union – the historic situation and subsequent CMDh guidance

    2022-08-22T00:01:00Z

    Allergen products in the EU are defined as goods ‘intended to identify or induce a specific acquired alteration in the immunological response to an allergizing agent’. Historically, allergens were authorised under the national frameworks of member states (MS) with some legislation pre-dating the Treaty of Rome in 1957. This led to regulatory problems, such as pharmacovigilance monitoring standards. The Co-ordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Human (CMDh) addressed these authorisation issues and published a document on recommendations to common regulatory approaches for medicinal allergen products. This article provides an overview of the CMDh guidance, including a summary of some of the responses received during its consultation phase.