EMA ‘Needs More Resources’ If EU Rolling Reviews Are To Be Used More Widely

An assessment of the European Medicines Agency’s performance in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic shows that the agency was “well prepared” with a crisis management plan but that it faced a range of challenges such as the fallout from Brexit, a heavy workload and how to maintain the public’s trust in medicines regulation.

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The EMA faced many challenges in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak • Source: Shutterstock

One of the most popular demands from the pharmaceutical industry is to make more use of the rolling reviews that the European Medicines Agency used for evaluating COVID-19 products during the pandemic so as to “speed up the scientific review process for more marketing authorization applications.”

However, in its current format, the European medicines regulatory network (EMRN) “is not at all equipped" to deal with the...

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