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to maintain products registered before January 1, 1995 (variations, renewals, etc.);
to handle adverse drug reactions;
to authorize clinical trials (where legislation demands it); and
to inspect (GMP, GLP, and GCP).
This is by no means a complete list but illustrates that the Member States have an important and continuing role to play in the new procedures as well as still having many activities locally. This new emphasis has resulted in the recent reorganization of many regulatory bodies in the European Union to enable them to carry out their new functions.
V. Fees
A Council Regulation on Fees [14] was issued in February 1995. The Agency has discussed the intention to be self-financing, with fees as the main source of revenue, within 35 years. Figure 4 details the present fees.
VI. Computer Assisted Product Licence Applications (CAPLAs)
Although various national Regulatory Agencies have been accepting and experimenting with Computer Assisted Product Licence Applications (CAPLAs),
ECU
Centralized Procedure
140,000
Additional strengths/forms
20,000
to a total of
200,000
Generics
70,000
Additional strengths/forms
10,000
to a total of
100,000
Extensions
40,000
Type I Variation
5,000
Type II
40,000
Renewal
10,000
Inspection
10,000
Transfer of MA holder
5,000
Arbitration
30,000
Fig. 4 Council Regulation Fees.

 
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