COUNCIL MEDICINE REFORMS
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a string of reforms to EU pharmaceutical legislation, designed to boost research, innovation and the working of the EU internal market while protecting patients. They include a new regulation on authorising and supervising medicines (and on EMEA); directives on EU codes on human and veterinary medicines and a directive on traditional herbal medicines.
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a string of reforms to EU pharmaceutical legislation, designed to boost research, innovation and the working of the EU internal market while protecting patients. They include a new regulation on authorising and supervising medicines (and on EMEA); directives on EU codes on human and veterinary medicines and a directive on traditional herbal medicines.
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