MELCLASS Database

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The Partial Agreement Division in the Social and Public Health Field has developed this database which aims at:

• facilitating the communication and exchange of information on the legal classification of medicines (under prescription/over the counter) between member states on a national level,
• collecting this information in an efficient and standardised format,
• allowing to manage the annual publication of the resolution of medicines which are obtainable only on a medical prescription as well as their exemptions from prescription, reports on medicines over the counter and the establishment of working documents for the committees,
• making searches on specific information concerning the conditions and details on the legal classification.

The member states’ delegates supply the modifications concerning the legal classification of medicines (under prescription/over the counter) twice a year. The information communicated is hosted in the database which is coordinated by the Secretariat and form the basis of the decisions taken by the Committee.

Link to the Database.