1. Legal bodies responsible for regulatory procedures

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In the EU, a medicine for human use may be authorised either by the European Commission through the centralised procedure or by national competent authorities through a mutual recognition, decentralised or national procedure:

Authorising body

Procedure

Scientific Assessment

Territorial scope

Commission

Centralised

European Medicines Agency (EMA) through its committees

EU +EEA States Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland

National competent authorities

Mutual Recognition*, Decentralised*, National

National competent authorities
(in case of disagreement additional assessment by the EMA)

EU countries concerned

* These procedures are overseen by the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) via the Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures (CMDH)