Regulatory/GMP Compliance, Europe

The agency’s human medicines committee has recommended extending the approved storage period of unopened thawed vials at 2–8 0C from five days to 31 days.

NICE has issued a positive recommendation for Sobi's Kineret (anakinra) to be used as a first-line biologic therapeutic option for Still’s disease.

Celltrion Group has revealed that EMA's CHMP has issued a positive scientific opinion for regdanvimab (CT-P59)—an anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate.

The agency’s human medicines committee has approved new manufacturing sites for COVID-19 vaccines.

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The European Medicines Agency and Health Canada have published clinical data used to support the authorization of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The European Medicines Agency has begun a rolling review based on laboratory and clinical studies of the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac).

The EC has granted marketing authorization to Celltrion Healthcare for its adalimumab biosimilar, Yuflyma (CT-P17).

EMA has clarified its position on the European approval process of the Sputnik V vaccine.

The agency is developing guidance to help manufacturers make changes to existing COVID-19 vaccines to treat new variants in the coronavirus.

The European Medicines Agency has recommended granting conditional marketing authorization for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued the first safety update on a COVID-19 vaccine—Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine).

Administration of the COVID-19 vaccination from Oxford University and AstraZeneca is expected to begin in the UK in early 2021.

A decision by the European Commission on conditional marketing authorization for the European Union’s first COVID-19 vaccine is expected soon.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have published a joint strategy for medicines regulation in Europe over the next five years.

The agency recommended treatments for a variety of cancers as well as treatments for glaucoma and influenza.

The guidance was published in connection with a safety monitoring plan for COVID-19 vaccines.

The agency’s safety monitoring plan outlines how information that emerges after the authorization of COVID-19 vaccines will be collected and reviewed.

The guidelines are part of the independent control of pandemic COVID-19 vaccine batches.

The document provides analytical strategy options for the control of recombinant viral vectored vaccines to support COVID-19 vaccine developers.

The agency published clinical data on remdesivir and information about COVID-19 treatments that have received scientific advice or informal guidance from EMA’s pandemic Task Force.

The UK's MHRA has joined the Australia-Canada-Singapore-Switzerland (ACSS) Consortium of regulators.

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The agency sent an open letter to European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly affirming the agency’s intention to apply the same standards to the evaluation of COVID-19 treatments as it does to other medicines.

The European Medicines Agency has started a rolling review of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Symbiosis has successfully completed a scheduled inspection by MHRA.

ISPE has released new guidance on the cleaning validation lifecycle, written by a group of experts and reviewed by regulators and practitioners.

The EMA recommendations include a meningococcal vaccine and the biosimilar Nyvepria.