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Industry groups seek EU-U.K. regulatory partnership

July 13, 2017 10:47 PM UTC

On Thursday, a letter from four European and four British life sciences industry associations asked the U.K.'s Brexit negotiators to immediately begin discussions on a “cooperation agreement” between EMA and the U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). A second round of Brexit negotiations is due to begin Monday.

The trade groups stressed the importance of maintaining marketing authorizations previously granted in Europe in both the U.K. and the EU, and of ensuring that potential changes to trade agreements do not impede the development, manufacture and supply of medicines across Europe...