The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2009

Information with the application

2.—(1) An application must include all necessary administrative information, and all scientific documentation necessary for demonstrating the safety, quality and efficacy of the product.

(2) In particular, the applicant must provide all the data required in Annex I to Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products(1), generated in accordance with that Annex.

(3) The application must contain the following information—

(a) the name of the person who will hold the marketing authorisation, that person’s address and, if different, the name and address of all the manufacturers involved in each stage of the manufacture, and the sites where the manufacture will take place;

(b) the name of the veterinary medicinal product, which may be either—

(i) an invented name provided that this is not liable to be confused with the common name of the product or the international non-proprietary name (INN) recommended by the World Health Organization; or

(ii) a common or scientific name accompanied by a trademark or the name of the marketing authorisation holder;

(c) the qualitative and quantitative particulars of all the constituents of the veterinary medicinal product, including its INN recommended by the World Health Organization, where an INN exists, or its chemical name;

(d) a description of the method of manufacture;

(e) all therapeutic indications, contra-indications and adverse reactions;

(f) the dosage for each species of animal for which the veterinary medicinal product is intended, its pharmaceutical form, method and route of administration and proposed shelf life;

(g) any proposed precautionary and safety measures to be taken when storing the veterinary medicinal product, administering it to animals or disposing of waste, together with an indication of potential risks that the veterinary medicinal product might pose to the environment, to human or animal health or to plants, together with the reasons;

(h) in the case of medicinal products intended for food‑producing species, the proposed withdrawal period necessary to ensure that the maximum residue limits specified in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 (laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin(2)) are not exceeded;

(i) a description of the testing methods to be used during manufacture;

(j) the results of—

(i) pharmaceutical (physico-chemical, biological or microbiological) tests;

(ii) safety tests and residue tests;

(iii) pre-clinical and clinical trials;

(iv) tests assessing the potential risks to the environment from the product;

(k) a detailed description of the pharmacovigilance system and, where appropriate, the risk management system that the applicant will put in place;

(l) a summary of the product characteristics, mock-ups of all proposed packaging and the proposed package leaflet, if any;

(m) a document showing that the manufacturer is authorised to produce veterinary medicinal products;

(n) copies (which must be updated if there are any changes while the application is being considered) of—

(i) any marketing authorisation obtained in another member State or in a third country for the relevant veterinary medicinal product, and a list of any other member States in which an application for authorisation of the product has been submitted;

(ii) if the product is already authorised outside the United Kingdom, the summary of product characteristics for each authorisation;

(iii) any decision to refuse authorisation, whether in the Community or a third country and the reasons for that decision;

(o) proof that the applicant has the services of a qualified person responsible for pharmacovigilance (referred to in these Regulations as a qualified person (pharmacovigilance)) and has the necessary means for the notification of any adverse reaction suspected of occurring either in the Community or in a third country;

(p) if the veterinary medicinal product is intended for food-producing species and contains one or more pharmacologically active substances not yet included for the species in question in Annex I, II or III to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90, a document certifying that a valid application for the establishment of maximum residue limits has been submitted to the Agency in accordance with paragraph 5.

(4) All documents relating to the results of tests or trials must be accompanied by a detailed and critical expert report that has been drafted and signed by a person with the requisite technical or professional qualifications and that has a brief curriculum vitae of the person signing the report attached to it.

(5) In the case of immunological products, the applicant must submit a description of the methods used to establish that the manufacturing process will consistently produce a veterinary medicinal product that is in accordance with the marketing authorisation.

(1)

OJ No L 211, 28.11.2001, p. 1 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L152, 16.6.2009, p. 11. Annex I was inserted by Commission Directive 2009/9/EC (OJ No L 44, 14.2.2009, p. 10).

(2)

OJ No L224, 18.8.1990, p. 1 This Regulation has been replaced by Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down Community procedures for the establishment of residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin, (OJ No L 152, 16.6.2009, p. 11) but by virtue of Article 29 of that Regulation the Annexes to Regulation 2377/90 continue in force until the adoption of a Commission Regulation replacing them.