Experts of medicines agencies of the Baltic States discuss news in the field and sign an updated agreement on the common Baltic Package procedure

03.09.2015.

On 3rd September 2015 a meeting of the experts of medicines agencies of the Baltic States is taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania, discussing the news and the normative regulation of the field. The meeting agenda contains issues related to the common Baltic Package procedure, strategic development issues of the European Medicines Agency, medicines safety issues and additional safety elements on packages, risks of falsified medicines and other issues.

Guido Rasi, Principal Adviser in Charge of Strategy at the European Medicines Agency, is also participating in the meeting and emphasising the role of national medicines agencies, "Strong national competent authorities are essential in the field of pharmaceutics. They provide their expertise in centralised and national marketing authorisation procedures, they can connect local representatives of the industry with people who carry out scientific expertise on medicines centrally assessed in Europe, they are the national centres for pharmacovigilance and market surveillance issues, they link healthcare systems, healthcare specialists and patients."