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No. European Marketing Authorisations (EMA) Marketing Authorisations (MAs) are issued by the EMA under the Centralised Procedure (CP) process. Once granted, this enables the MAH to market and distribute medicines within all EU member states without an additional local UK MA.
First, the pharmacist scans the medicine to decommission. This sends a message to the relevant NMVS of the new market. As this NMVS will not yet contain pack data, they will then query the number with the EMVO.
No. The Delegated Regulation asserts that all parties that are connected to the repositories system, including manufacturers, wholesalers and pharmacies, have sole responsibility, ownership and access to any data that they generate.
Data Matrix standard is Higher than ECC200, ISO/IEC 16022:2006 is presumed to conform:
Printed Quality must be rated 1.
The EU Commission Q&A on FMD can be found on the European Commission site.
More information is available from the British Generic Manufacturers Association (BGMA).
No. Unless the WDA holder is also an MAH or a Parallel Distributor, there is no need to connect to the EMVS.
GTIN product codes require 14 characters. For more information, please refer to the EMVS Pack Coding Guidelines.
Serialisation should be applied to the pack which is the unit of sale and to which the labelling provisions in Article 54 of Council Directive 2001/83/EC apply.
The European Medicines Verfication Organsiation (EMVO) is a Belgian non-profit organisation representing stakeholders united in securing the legal supply chain from falsified medicines. For more details go to their website.
Please refer to the European Pack Coding Guidelines from EFPIA.
Product, Batch and Pack data started being transmitted to the UKNI MVS when SecurMed UK was connected to the European Hub (EMVS) on 31st October 2018. Data for millions of packs is already downloaded.
The safety features legislation sits within Article 54 of Council Directive 2001/83/EC.
No. The MAH should upload the pack data to the EMVS, which will determine which packs need to be sent to the UKNI national hub. The EMVS is the master system of record for MAH pack data.
Each Manufacturer who also holds a WDA needs to review their business operations and wholesaling processes and, where applicable, connect to SecurMed for medicines verification and decommissioning as a Wholesaler.
It is up to each MAH or Manufacturer to perform this assessment.
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