UK And EMA Could Work Together Informally After Brexit

 
• By Ian Schofield
  
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The UK may not be able to participate in the European Medicines Agency after Brexit, but there are plenty of precedents for informal collaboration among regulatory agencies worldwide. A former European Medicines Agency executive director and legal experts talk to the Pink Sheet about what might be possible.

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The UK and EMA are likely to find other ways of working together after Brexit

The EU has said that the UK will not be able to take part in any EU agencies, including the European Medicines Agency, once it leaves the European Union. Nonetheless, there will still be scope for some flexibility on the part of the EU, and informal collaboration on specific regulatory activities, as already takes place among international regulators, is a likely way forward for the future relationship, according to experts who spoke to the Pink Sheet.

In view of the UK’s intention to leave the single market, the customs union and the oversight of the Court...

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