EMA-updates september: Regulatory and procedural guidelines

Een update van de "regulatory and procedural guidelines":

• European Medicines Agency, Dossier requirements of the members of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use, EMA/466102/2007-Rev.24, www.ema.europa.eu.
  Veterinary Medicines and Product Data Management. This document lists the specific requirements for the submission of dossiers to CVMP members and alternates. If not specified differently, the requirements relate to the full dossier/response of a new application.
• European Medicine Agency, Practical questions and answers to support the implementation of the variations guidelines in the centralised procedure, EMA/427505/2013 Rev.1, www.ema.europa.eu.
  Patient Health Protection. This question and answer (Q&A) document provides practical considerations concerning the implementation of the Guidelines laid down in Chapters II, IIa, III and IV of Commission Regulation (EC) No
  1234/2008 of 24 November 2008 concerning the examination of variations to the terms of marketing
  authorisations for medicinal products for human use and veterinary medicinal products and on the
  documentation to be submitted pursuant to those procedures (hereafter called ‘variations guidelines’).

• European Medicine Agency, Initial notices for parallel distribution – August 2013, EMA/539886/2013, www.ema.europa.eu.
  Patient Health Protection.
• European Medicine Agency, ICH guideline S1 Regulatory notice on changes to core guideline on rodent carcinogenicity testing of pharmaceuticals, EMA/CHMP/ICH/752486/2012, www.ema.europa.eu.
  A change to the current ICH S1 guidance on rodent carcinogenicity testing is being considered. The
  goal of this potential change is to introduce a more comprehensive and integrated approach to address
  the risk of human carcinogenicity of small molecule pharmaceuticals, and to define conditions under
  which 2-yr rat carcinogenicity studies add value to that assessment. This effort is not applicable to
  biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals that follow the ICH S6(R1) guidance document.
• European Medicine Agency, Guidance on centrally authorised products requiring a notification of a change for update of annexes, EMA/565082/2013, www.ema.europa.eu.
  Compliance and Inspection. Parallel distributors are only required to inform the EMA of changes to the labelling or leaflet related to any update of the annexes of marketing authorisation once a year in their annual update application, except in cases related to safety or quality issues. The following table lists the centrally authorised products for which the EMA requires a notification of change before implementation.
• Europeaan Medicine Agency, Qualification opinion of a novel data driven model of disease progression and trial evaluation in mild and moderate Alzheimer’s disease, EMA/CHMP/SAWP/567188/2013, www.ema.europa.eu.
  The context of use: “The proposed Disease Progression and Trial Evaluation Model, as defined in this document, is suitable for qualification for use in Drug development as a longitudinal model for describing changes in cognition in patients with mild and moderate AD, and for use in trial designs in mild and moderate AD.”