PART 2Capital Fees for Pre-Application Meetings
Fee for advice for other purposes10
1
Unless paragraph (4) applies, the fee payable by a person specified in paragraph (2) with whom the licensing authority holds a meeting for a purpose specified in paragraph (3) is £4,451.
2
A person who—
a
is, or is to be, a sponsor of a clinical trial;
b
manufactures medicinal products;
c
is, or is to be, responsible for placing medicinal products on the market; or
d
acts on behalf of, or provides advice or assistance to, a person referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c),
is a specified person for the purpose of paragraph (1).
3
A meeting referred to in paragraph (1) is for a specified purpose if it is held to provide advice in relation to—
a
scientific or regulatory issues relating to the development of a medicinal product or a type of medicinal product;
b
the design of pharmaceutical or pre-clinical tests, or clinical trials, for a medicinal product or a type of medicinal product;
c
the management of risk in relation to a medicinal product or a type of medicinal product which is under development, or is being marketed in the European Union; or
d
other scientific or regulatory issues relating to a medicinal product or a type of medicinal product after an EU marketing authorisation has been granted for that product or a product of that type.
4
Paragraph (1) does not apply in the case of a meeting where the purpose of such a meeting is to provide only advice specified in regulations 4 to 9.
C15
In this regulation—
“Directive 93/42/EEC” means Council Directive 93/42/EEC concerning medical devices F1;
“medical device” has the same meaning as in Article 1(2)(a) of Directive 93/42/EEC;
“medicinal product” includes a substance incorporated in a medical device which, if used separately, may be considered to be a medicinal product as defined in Article 1(2) of the 2001 Directive;
“regulatory issues” means issues relating to the application of any EU instrument relating to EU marketing authorisations or to medical devices, or any enactment which implements such an instrument;
“risks” means any risk relating to the quality, safety or efficacy of a medicinal product as regards patients' health or public health, or any risk of undesirable effects on the environment;
“sponsor” shall be interpreted in accordance with regulation 3 (sponsor of a clinical trial) of the Clinical Trials Regulations F2;
and a reference to the development of a medicinal product or a type of medicinal product is a reference to development for the purposes of—
a
obtaining an EU marketing authorisation, or making a variation to an EU marketing authorisation, for that product or a product of that type; F4...
b
c
obtaining an EU technical documentation assessment certificate or EU type-examination certificate of the type mentioned in section 5 of Annex IX and section 6 of Annex X of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 on medical devices, amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 and repealing Council Directives 90/385/EEC and 93/42/EEC, for a medical device incorporating that product or a product of that type.