30/11/2021 (Agence Europe) – The interim agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the new prerogatives of the European Medicines Agency (see EUROPE 12822/1) was broadly supported on Tuesday 30 November by the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). Seventy-two MEPs voted in favour of the negotiated text, only three opposed it, and none abstained. The Parliament as a whole will, in turn, be called upon to comment during the January plenary session. In particular, the negotiated text gives the European agency new responsibilities for monitoring stocks of medicines and developing medicines in the event of a health emergency. This is the first of the three texts in the “Health Union” package (see EUROPE 12600/24) to have been the subject of an interinstitutional agreement. (AC)