Time Is Short To Prepare For New Post-Brexit UK Regulation
Off-Patent Industry Reacts To Post-Transition Period Guidance From MHRA
• By David Wallace
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Guidance from the UK’s MHRA on post-Brexit arrangements relevant to the off-patent industry has been welcomed by local industry body the BGMA. However, it has warned that time is short to prepare for the end of the UK-EU transition period, with new guidance in certain areas “critical.”
Guidance has been issued on UK arrangements following the Brexit transition period • Source: Shutterstock
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