GMP News - Regulatory Affairs

In December 2022, the "Questions & Answers (Q&A)" documents relating to centralised marketing authorisation procedures were again revised and published on the website of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The Q&A catalogues, which can be used by marketing authorisation holders and applicants of centralised procedures, provide answers to possible questions at the different stages of the centralised marketing authorisation application process.

The European Medicines Agency has published pre-submission checklists for certain procedure types. In particular the Validation Checklist for Type II (non)clinical variations has now been updated.

In order to help sponsors using the CTIS, the EMA has published a sponsor handbook. The EMA is continuously updating the CTIS Sponsor Handbook with further priority topics and a revised version 3 has now been published.

Since the end of April 2022, the revision of the "ICH guideline Q3C (R8) on impurities: guideline for residual solvents" of the ICH can be consulted on the ICH website under the heading "Quality Guidelines". This version has now been corrected and published in the new form.

The European Commission published an updated Version of the Questions & Answers relating to the EU Clinical Trials Regulation. What are patient facing documents and how are these documents expected to be submitted ?

Following the delayed 2019 Annual Report of the Good Clinical Practice Inspectors’ Working Group (GCP IWG) published earlier this year, the EMA released the 2020 and 2021 annual GCP reports. An increase in findings related to computer systems is noted compared to the last reports.

The European Medicines Agency has published for public consultation a Good Practice Guide for the use of the Metadata Catalogue of Real-World-Data Sources. The guide provides recommendations on how to use the real-world metadata catalogue that is currently being built and will help to identify suitable RWD sources.