History
2020
The COVID-19 pandemic marked the year 2020, but the EDQM, operating on the front lines of public health protection, immediately drew up contingency plans for all its branches of activity and continued to fulfil its mission despite the necessary restrictions on travel, shipping and contact...
2019
The year 2019 saw important progress in all EDQM activities. The European Pharmacopoeia Commission appointed more than 850 members to its groups of experts and working parties for a new term of office of three years.
Altogether, the Ph. Eur. was complemented with 19 new monographs,...
2018
The year 2018 was another productive year for the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Commission, a testament to its commitment to keeping abreast of new scientific developments and anticipating the need to create...
2017
The European Pharmacopoeia Commission made major progress in the field of biotherapeutic products and animal protection in 2017.
In particular, the first monograph on a monoclonal antibody (mAb): Infliximab concentrated solution (2928) was adopted, marking an important milestone in...
2016
The year 2016 saw the publication of the 9th edition of the European Pharmacopeia and the election of a new Chair and two new Vice-Chairs to the Ph. Eur. Commission.
The Ph. Eur. Commission also revised its working procedures to open up to nominations for its Groups of Experts...
2015
The Ph. Eur. Commission adopted its first finished product monograph containing a chemically defined active substance and adopted its strategy for the implementation of the ICH Q3D Guideline on Elemental impurities.
2014
The year 2014 was an anniversary year for the EDQM. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Convention on the Elaboration of a European Pharmacopoeia and the 20th anniversaries of...
2013
The EDQM Laboratory was accredited as ISO/IEC 17025:2005 compliant and the ISO 9001:2008 certification was extended to cover the conduct...
2012
The eTACT project, the EDQMs’ anti-counterfeiting traceability service for medicines was launched. Ukraine became the first country to ratify the Medicrime Convention and the 38th Member of the European...
2011
On 24 June 2011, the EDQM signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China (SATCM) and its National Key Institute of TCM Quality Control (NKI-TCM).
