Information for marketing authorisation holdersThe State Agency of Medicines (hereinafter - SAM) reminds you that the requirements regarding procedure for examination of variations for nationally authorised medicinal products laid down by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 712/2012 of 3 August 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 1234/2008 concerning the examination of variations to the terms of marketing authorisation for medicinal products for human use and veterinary medicinal products (hereinafter - Regulation), Chapter IIa “Variations to purely national marketing authorisations” shall come into force on August 4th, 2013. Information regarding the most significant amendments to the Regulation was provided on SAM website on July 19th, 2013. A procedure has been established for the worksharing procedure regarding medicinal products with purely national marketing authorisations in accordance with the updated Chapter 7, CMDh Best Practice Guide on Worksharing (Doc. Ref.: CMDh/297/2013/Rev.21 October 2013) of the CMDh Best Practice Guides for the Submission and Processing of Variations in the Mutual Recognition Procedure:
During the worksharing procedure the marketing authorisation holder shall not withdraw the medicinal product included in the application from medicinal product registers in any of the concerned member states. In that case these medicinal products shall be withdrawn from medicinal product registers in all of the concerned member states. The full version of CMDh Best Practice Guides for the Submission and Processing of Variations in the Mutual Recognition Procedure, Chapter 7, CMDh Best Practice Guide on Worksharing (Doc. Ref.: CMDh/297/2013/Rev.21 October 2013) is available here
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Information for marketing authorisation holders
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