10/11 April 2024
The EU Commission has launched four public consultations on recommendations related to clinical trials:
The public consultations are open from 1 June 2016 to 31 August 2016.
The eight page consultation document "Definition of Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) and use of Auxiliary Medicinal Products (AMPs)" intends to "clarify and provide additional guidance on the definition of IMPs and to provide recommendations about the use of auxiliary medicinal products (AMPs)".
It is outlined that medicinal products with a marketing authorisation are also considered to be IMPs, "when they are to be used as the test product, reference product or placebo in a clinical trial." But what are AMPs? So far, Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 Article 2 (8) defines an AMP as "a medicinal product used for the needs of a clinical trial as described in the protocol, but not as an investigational medicinal product". These could be, for example:
This means that AMPs are medicinal products. But not all products used in clinical trials are medicinal products (for example certain challenge agents). As a consequence these products are not AMPs. A list of types of AMPs, with examples, is included in Annex 1 of the respective document.
Furthermore the document discusses the use of authorised AMPs and unauthorised AMPs and further requirements like documentation and adverse reactions.