Insertion of new regulation 202A (medicinal products subject to additional monitoring)U.K.
163. After regulation 202 insert—
“Medicinal products subject to additional monitoringU.K.
Licensing authority power in relation to medicinal products subject to additional monitoring
202A.—(1) The licensing authority may establish a list of medicinal products that are subject to additional monitoring.
(2) The list referred to in paragraph (1) is to include the names and active substances of—
(a)medicinal products authorised in the United Kingdom that contain a new active substance which, on 1st January 2011, was not contained in any medicinal product authorised in the United Kingdom;
(b)any biological medicinal product not covered by sub-paragraph (a) that was authorised in the United Kingdom after 1st January 2011;
(c)medicinal products that are authorised pursuant to these Regulations, subject to the conditions referred to in regulation 50I, 59(2)(b) or (c), 60 or 61(4).
(3) If the licensing authority considers it appropriate, medicinal products that are authorised pursuant to these Regulations, subject to the conditions referred to in regulation 59(2)(a), (d), (e) or (f), 61(5) or 183(2), may also be included in the list referred to in paragraph (1).
(4) For medicinal products included in the list referred to in paragraph (1)—
(a)the summary of product characteristics and the package leaflet must include a symbol and statement as follows: “▼ This medicinal product is subject to additional monitoring”; and
(b)that symbol must be proportional to the font of the subsequent standardised text, and each side of the triangle must have a minimum length of 5 millimetres.
(5) In the cases referred to in paragraph (2)(a) and (b), the licensing authority must, unless paragraph (6) applies, remove a medicinal product from the list after five years, beginning with the day after the UK reference date referred to in regulation 193.
(6) In the cases referred to in paragraph (2)(c) and (3), the licensing authority must remove a medicinal product from the list once the condition or obligation under a provision specified in those paragraphs has been fulfilled.
(7) Until the licensing authority publishes a list of medicinal products under paragraph (1), the reference to that list is instead to be read as a reference to the list referred to in Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004, as that list may be amended from time to time.”.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 163 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1