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MEB Science Day 2025 – Platform Technologies: opportunities and challenges
Platform technologies have recently gained increased attention due to their potential to advance medicines development. A growing ...
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The Veterinary Medicinal Product Unit publishes quarterly overview of companies in the starting materials (API) register.
As of July 1 2025, the Veterinary Medicinal Product Unit (BD) will publish quarterly overviews of manufacturers, importers, ...
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New availability schedule of time slots
The moment at which new slots become available in the MEB planning tool- used by companies to reserve a timeslot for submitting ...
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Advice on implementing regulation (EU) 2024/1159
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) published a new version of the QRD template in November 2024: QRD template version 9.1. ...
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Science Policy 2025–2029: From expertise to impact
The MEB has a new Science Policy for 2025-2029. Four key themes will guide regulatory science at the MEB for the coming four ...
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VMPU to start publication of GMP inspections
Starting this year, the Veterinary Medicinal Products Unit (VMPU) will publish the reports of veterinary GMP inspections. The ...
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Planning tool for requesting time slots mandatory from 1 July 2025
As of 1 July 2025 it will be mandatory to use the MEB planning tool to reserve a time slot for submitting an application for ...
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MEB Science Day 2025 - Platform Technologies: opportunities and challenges
Join us for the MEB Science Day 2025, a unique opportunity to share knowledge and connect with colleagues in the field of ...
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New veterinary QRD template version 9.1 published
A Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC), a label and a package leaflet are established when a marketing authorisation is ...
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European Shortages Monitoring Platform operational
The European Shortages Monitoring Platform (ESMP) went live this week. The platform enables marketing authorisation holders and ...
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MEB fee rate change as of January 2025
The Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) increases the fee rates for authorisation applications, authorisation changes and the annual ...
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New Veterinary Medicinal Products Unit fees for 2025
With effect from 1 January 2025, the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) will be increasing its fees. This increase is necessary due ...
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Revised notification form for medicine shortages and defects
The notification form of the Medicine Shortages and Defects Notification Centre has been made more user-friendly. The marketing ...
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MEB Science Day 2024: Human centric approaches to improve the success of oncology therapies
The MEB Science Day 2024 took place in the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in Utrecht on 16 April 2024 and focused ...
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Planning tool for requesting timeslots expanded to more procedures
The planning tool firms can use to reserve a timeslot for requesting assessment procedures is being expanded. From now on, the ...
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MEB fee rate change as of January 2024
The Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) increases the fee rates for authorisation applications, authorisation changes and the annual ...
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Veterinary Medicinal Products Unit fees for 2024 included in revised Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulations 2022
With effect from 1 January 2024, the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) will be increasing its fees. The fees of the Veterinary ...
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First electronic product information (ePI) published
The Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB), in collaboration with 4 other medicines agencies, has published the first electronic ...
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