The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM), Council of Europe, is proud to announce its participation in a major European Union (EU) initiative aimed at strengthening regulatory systems for medicines across Sub-Saharan Africa. The EDQM, as part of a grant agreement just signed with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), will contribute its internationally recognised expertise in co-ordinating laboratory networks and organising programmes for official medicines control laboratories (OMCLs).
This initiative , part of the European Commission’s “Team Europe Initiatives”, supports the establishment of a continental regulatory model based on reliance, a transformative approach to regulatory co-operation and efficiency. The EDQM’s role will focus on increasing the capacity and strengthening the capability and competency of the African Medicines Quality Forum (AMQF) and its Networks of African Reliance Laboratories (NARLs), and on enhancing the capacity, capability and competency in individual AMQF National Quality Control Laboratories (NQCLs) to establish, adapt and maintain state-of-the-art quality systems and procedures that are fit for purpose – aligned with their specific duties and supportive of their operational needs.
Find out more by reading the press release “EDQM to play key role in strengthening African medicines regulation”.
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