Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU Council reached an agreement, on Thursday 28 October, on the draft regulation aimed at reinforcing the role of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to better equip the EU against health crises. This is the first of the three texts of the “European Health Union” package to be the subject of an Interinstitutional Agreement (see EUROPE B12600A24).
The text adopted, which will enter into force in March 2022 - with a few exceptions -...