Press Announcements 2020

Face-to-face events are out of the question in the present situation. However, online training options are a very good alternative. Learn more about the different online training options offered by the ECA.

In modern manufacturing practice, equipment qualification is a "Must". And yet, it is still being discussed. The new ECA Good Practice Guide for equipment qualification - together with many sample documents - thus aims at facilitating the implementation.

As a participant of the GMP Live Online Training "Product Transfer" you will receive electronic example documents, templates and guidelines for site change projects.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic (SARS-CoV-2), the ECA Academy has decided to conduct many trainings and conferences online until further notice.

Wouldn´t a fully electronic documentation sytem work for both parties (supplier and customer) in qualification projects? This we would like to find out - and would thus appreciate it if you took a few minutes to answer some questions.

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.

The call by the German Robert Koch-Institute (RKI) as well as other institutions in the field of disease surveillance and prevention to reduce social contacts in the private, professional and public environment and to recduce travel activities also has consequences for ECA events.