Press Announcements 2020

The European GDP Association has announced a change on the Authority Advisory Board. Johanna Linnolati from the Finnish Medicines Agency FIMEA decided to leave the board. Dr Daniel Müller, who accepted his nomination recently, takes her place.

In light of the effects COVID-19 has on our work, our social life and our travel behaviour, we have adjusted our cancellation policy to meet with the changes this pandemic has caused.

The ECA and the European QP Association are both named as official stakeholders by EU Commission to comment on Annex 1. A Task Force has been established to prepare the commentation. In order to involve the members of the ECA and the EQPA, a questionnaire was prepared.

What is the ECA Validation Group all about? Watch the group's new video and find out. It also provides a summary of their new Good Practice Guide on Integrated Qualification and Validation.

The ECA Visual Inspection Board Members worked on a new version of the Container-/Closure-Integrity Position Paper, which has now been published.

On 20 February 2020 the European Commission published the final draft of the EU GMP Annex 1. The previous draft had been published after a fundamental revision end of 2017 - and had resulted in more than 6,000 comments. This is why the European Commission will proceed differently with the Final Draft of Annex 1. Read more about the upcoming Stakeholder Consultation