- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 40 of 500 obligations carry up to 2 years imprisonment. 49 carry different penalties and 411 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Plus 93 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Licence Holder — also bound by 225 other Acts
Manufacturer — also bound by 502 other Acts
Applicant — also bound by 307 other Acts
Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts
Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts
Distributor — also bound by 182 other Acts
Data Controller — also bound by 35 other Acts
Employee — also bound by 189 other Acts
Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
General
0 of 10 sections shown10 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Administration
2 of 8 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Ministers must appoint and maintain the British Pharmacopoeia CommissionCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA and advisory bodies may appoint expert advisory groupsStatutory regulator
6 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Manufacture and distribution of medicinal products and active substances
30 of 66 sections shown- Hold a manufacturer's licence and follow a master file for MM productsAny Person
- Obtain a licence and master file to manufacture POC medicinesAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must maintain and review the approved countries list for medicine importsStatutory regulator
- Apply for a manufacturer's or wholesale dealer's licenceTrader
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must evaluate specific safety and quality criteriaStatutory regulator
- Do not re-approve suspended manufacturing units without a new applicationLicence Holder
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must follow specific procedures to change or cancel a licenceStatutory regulator
- Request a certificate of manufacturer's licence for exporting medicinesLicence Holder
- Fail to keep or transfer ATMP data as requiredManufacturer
- Fail to keep or transfer data for advanced therapy medicinal productsManufacturer
- Breach of regulations on advanced therapy medicinal products or starting materialsAny Person
- Comply with additional manufacturing requirements for MM medicinal productsManufacturer
- Comply with medicine manufacturing, sourcing, and quality standardsLicence Holder
- Ensure medicines and active substances meet import safety standardsLicence Holder
- Maintain adequate staff and facilities for medicine manufacturingLicence Holder
- Maintain a 'Qualified Person' and notify the MHRA of changesLicence Holder
- Maintain supply and standards for NIMAR medicines to Northern IrelandLicence Holder
- Comply with wholesale distribution standards and supply obligationsLicence Holder
- Register as a medicine broker and follow distribution guidelinesAny Person
- Appoint a Responsible Person (Import) for medicines from approved countriesLicence Holder
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must maintain a register of import responsible personsStatutory regulator
- Register as a broker of medicinal productsAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must determine broker registration within 90 daysStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must determine broker applications within 90 daysStatutory regulator
- Report falsified medicines and maintain compliance systemsTrader
- Apply in writing to change your broker registrationAny Person
- Breach medicines regulations or provide false informationAny Person
- Breach of regulation 45K requirements for human medicinesAny Person
- Comply with Good Practice standards for active medicinal substancesManufacturer
- Apply to change your active substance registrationAny Person
- Appoint and notify a 'Responsible Person' for your medicines licenceLicence Holder
- Maintain ongoing registration criteria as a medicines brokerTrader
36 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Requirement for authorisation
1 of 2 sections shown- Sell or supply medicines without authorisationAny Person
1 other section in this Part — procedural and definitional
Marketing authorisations
49 of 95 sections shown- Include safety monitoring details in paediatric medicine applicationsApplicant
- Provide efficacy and safety follow-up plans for advanced therapy medicinesApplicant
- Demonstrate eligibility for a conditional marketing authorisationApplicant
- Provide monitoring plans for Point of Care (POC) medicinal productsApplicant
- Do not sell generic medicines in Northern Ireland before the allowed dateApplicant
- Provide specific data when applying for a Northern Ireland Marketing AuthorisationApplicant
- Submit supplementary data for similar biological medicine applicationsApplicant
- Provide additional data for 'biosimilar' medicine applicationsApplicant
- Submit trial data for new drug combinationsApplicant
- Update the MHRA on parallel import licence informationApplicant
- Update your marketing authorisation application with new informationApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must publish paediatric medicine registers and decisionsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must grant orphan marketing authorisations and maintain a public listStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must assess and factor in device certificates for combined medicinesStatutory regulator
- Include conditional status and renewal date on medicine packaging and leafletsApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must ensure GMO medicinal products meet safety standardsLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide on marketing authorisations within 210 daysStatutory regulator
- Incorporate licence conditions into your risk management systemManufacturer
- Comply with post-authorisation obligations and update risk management systemManufacturer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must classify medicines as prescription-only, pharmacy, or general saleStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must specify frequency for safety reports in authorisationsLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must protect clinical data for new medicine classifications for one yearStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must publish medicine authorisation details and assessment reportsStatutory regulator
- Apply to renew your UK marketing authorisationApplicant
- Do not sell or supply medicines that have been suspendedAny Person
- Notify the MHRA when medicines are marketed or withdrawnTrader
- Share manufacturing and control information with the licence holderAny Person
- Provide manufacturing and control info to the POC licence holderManufacturer
- Review and update medicine manufacturing methods as science progressesAny Person
- Report new safety info and trial results for medicinesAny Person
- Keep medicine product information up to date with scientific knowledgeTrader
- Keep records to facilitate product recalls or withdrawalsAny Person
- Maintain data and traceability for advanced therapy medicinal productsAny Person
- Ensure continuous supply of medicines to the UK marketAny Person
- Fail to submit marketing authorisation information to EMAAny Person
- Fail to submit required EMA information for marketing authorisationsAny Person
- Fail to comply with urgent safety restrictions on parallel import licenceAny Person
- Fail to comply with urgent safety restrictions on medicinesAny Person
- Cease supply of authorised medicine without proper transfer or EMA noticeAny Person
- Withdraw a paediatric medicine from the market illegallyAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to place paediatric medicine on the marketAny Person
- Fail to place product on market with paediatric indicationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to notify paediatric study resultsAny Person
- Fail to submit paediatric study results on timeAny Person
- Breach Commission Regulation 2016/161 on medicine safety featuresAny Person
- Fail to give accurate information in parallel import licence applicationAny Person
- Provide false or incomplete information in parallel import licence applicationAny Person
- Fail to give truthful information in a marketing authorisation applicationAny Person
- Give false or incomplete info in a medicine licence applicationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Provide false or misleading information about a medicinal productAny Person
- Provide false or misleading information to regulatorsAny Person
- Breach of pharmacovigilance conditionAny Person
- Fail to comply with pharmacovigilance conditionsAny Person
- Breach any provision of the Human Medicines RegulationsAny Person
- Breach of human medicines regulations requirementsAny Person
- Breach human medicines regulationsAny Person
- Breach of human medicines regulations and pharmacovigilance dutiesAny Person
- Provide additional test or trial results for non-generic UKMA(UK) applicationsApplicant
- Submit batch samples of biological medicines for testing before saleManufacturer
46 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Certification of homoeopathic medicinal products
13 of 23 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must classify medicine registration certificatesStatutory regulator
- Apply to renew your homeopathic medicine registrationApplicant
- Notify the MHRA of medicine market entry, withdrawals, and sales volumesAny Person
- Keep product manufacturing and control methods up to dateManufacturer
- Report safety updates and risks to the licensing authorityManufacturer
- Keep medicine product information up to date with scientific knowledgeAny Person
- Keep records to help with product recalls or withdrawalsAny Person
- Ensure continuous supply of registered medicines to meet patient needsAny Person
- Fail to give correct information on homoeopathic medicine registrationAny Person
- Fail to supply or provide false information in homeopathic product applicationAny Person
- Provide false or misleading information to the MHRAAny Person
- Breach of human medicine registration or licensing requirementsAny Person
- Breach of regulations regarding herbal medicines or misleading informationAny Person
- Commit an offence under the Human Medicines RegulationsAny Person
- Be liable for employee's offence under regulation 119Employer
- Employer liable for employee's application offenceEmployer
10 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Traditional herbal registrations
19 of 37 sections shown- Update herbal medicine registration applications with new safety dataApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA may refer traditional herbal medicine applications for expert adviceStatutory regulator
- Categorise traditional herbal products for saleTrader
- Apply to renew your traditional herbal registrationApplicant
- Do not sell or supply suspended traditional herbal medicinal productsAny Person
- Notify the MHRA when herbal products are launched or withdrawnAny Person
- Keep herbal medicine manufacturing methods up to date with scientific progressTrader
- Review and update herbal medicine registration if a new monograph is publishedAny Person
- Report safety information and trial results for herbal medicinesAny Person
- Keep herbal medicine product information up to dateAny Person
- Keep records to facilitate herbal product recallsAny Person
- Notify MHRA of urgent safety changes to herbal medicinesAny Person
- Ensure continuous supply of traditional herbal medicinal productsAny Person
- Fail to comply with urgent safety restriction duties for traditional herbal registrationsAny Person
- Fail to provide accurate information for herbal medicine registrationAny Person
- Give false or misleading info in herbal registration applicationsAny Person
- Provide false or misleading information about a traditional herbal productAny Person
- Provide false or misleading information in herbal registrationAny Person
- Breach any provision of the Human Medicines RegulationsAny Person
- Breach of medicines regulation requirements in this PartAny Person
- Employer liability for employee's application offencesEmployer
18 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Article 126a authorisations
2 of 3 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority may grant special authorisations for Northern IrelandStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must share medicine assessment reports with EU member statesLocal authority
1 other section in this Part — procedural and definitional
Borderline products
2 of 8 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must review provisional classification of a productStatutory regulator
- Stop selling products if the MHRA determines they are medicinesAny Person
Unlimited fine
6 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Exceptions to requirement for marketing authorisation etc
6 of 21 sections shown- Monitor and report safety data for EAMS medicinal productsAny Person
- Obtain informed consent before collecting patient data for EAMS medicinesData Controller
- Maintain records and report side effects for MM medicinal productsAny Person
- Maintain records and report adverse reactions for POC medicinal productsAny Person
- Provide false information or fail record‑keeping for special‑patient medicinesAny Person
- Provide false information or fail to keep medicinal product recordsAny Person
- Breach medicines supply exceptions for emergenciesAny Person
- Breach regulation 175 exceptions for human medicinesAny Person
15 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Pharmacovigilance
29 of 43 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must maintain drug safety reporting and public informationStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must operate a pharmacovigilance safety systemStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must audit its medicines safety monitoring systemsStatutory regulator
- Operate a pharmacovigilance system for monitoring medicine safetyAny Person
- Audit your pharmacovigilance system and manage findingsAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must record all reported suspected adverse drug reactionsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must share drug safety data with the WHOStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must process and report adverse drug reactionsStatutory regulator
- Record and centralise reports of suspected adverse drug reactionsAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must monitor medicine safety data and share risks with the EMAStatutory regulator
- Submit periodic safety update reports for parallel import licencesLicence Holder
- Submit Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSURs) for medicinesAny Person
- Vary marketing authorisation after changes to safety report submissionAny Person
- Apply for variations following a PSUR single assessmentAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must conduct and publish results of major safety reviewsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must notify international bodies of urgent safety actionsStatutory regulator
- Apply to vary medicine authorisation following EU urgent safety actionAny Person
- Submit draft study protocols for required safety studiesAny Person
- Submit substantial amendments to study protocols to the MHRAAny Person
- Apply for a medicine authorisation variation after a final study reportAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must maintain and publish a UK medicines web-portalStatutory regulator
- Maintain pharmacovigilance systems for medicinal productsAny Person
- Notify regulators before making public safety announcements about medicinesAny Person
- Fail to comply with any requirement of the Human Medicines RegulationsAny Person
- Fail to comply with pharmacovigilance obligationsAny Person
- Provide false or misleading information to medicines regulatorsAny Person
- Provide false or misleading information to the licensing authorityAny Person
- Fail to comply with medicine safety monitoring obligationsAny Person
- Fail to meet pharmacovigilance obligationsAny Person
- Fail to comply with pharmacovigilance obligations under EU RegulationAny Person
- Employer liability for employee's medicine offencesEmployer
- Include additional monitoring symbol and statement on product labels if your medicine is on the listManufacturer
14 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Dealings with medicinal products
12 of 60 sections shown- Sell prescription‑only medicines without a prescriptionAny Person
- Only prescribe or administer medicines under a clinical management planEmployee
- Sell medicinal product not authorised for general saleAny Person
- Sell general sale medicines outside pharmacy without meeting conditionsAny Person
- Sell or supply general‑sale medicinal product outside a registered pharmacyAny Person
- Establish written hub-and-spoke dispensing arrangements and notify patientsTrader
- Sell medicinal products from automatic machines without general sale authorisationAny Person
- Sell prescription-only or pharmacy medicines to unauthorised personsAny Person
- Sell medicinal product that fails to meet monograph standardAny Person
- Sell or supply non-compliant named medicinal productsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Keep records of prescription-only medicine sales and suppliesTrader
- Treat patient with advanced therapy product without traceability systemAny Person
- Breach rules on selling, prescribing, or supplying medicinesAny Person
- Illegally sell or supply prescription medicinesAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Use pharmacy premises while disqualifiedAny Person
Unlimited fine
48 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Sale of medicines to the public at a distance
8 of 15 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide on distance selling list applicationsStatutory regulator
- Report falsified medicines and changes to your register entryAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must process applications and publish listing detailsStatutory regulator
- Display required links and logo for online medicine salesAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must follow set procedures to change or remove a listingStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide on entry variations within 30 daysStatutory regulator
- Breach of medicines distance selling or false information rulesAny Person
- Breach of medicines regulations or give false informationAny Person
- Notify licensing authority before selling medicines onlineAny Person
7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Packaging and leaflets
19 of 30 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA may require specific packaging statements for Great Britain medicinesStatutory regulator
- Label and package advanced therapy medicinal products correctlyManufacturer
- Ensure correct labelling on POC medicinal product packagingManufacturer
- Label and package medicinal products correctlyAny Person
- Provide medicine names in Braille and leaflets in accessible formatsManufacturer
- Provide a clear and compliant package leaflet for medicinal productsApplicant
- Ensure packaging and leaflets do not contain promotional materialManufacturer
- Follow specific labelling requirements for radioactive medicinesManufacturer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must ensure radionuclides include detailed instruction leafletsStatutory regulator
- Ensure homoeopathic medicines are correctly labelled and packagedManufacturer
- Use English for medicinal product information and packagingManufacturer
- Submit medicine packaging mock-ups and leaflets for approvalAny Person
- Fail to provide compliant packaging or leaflets for medicines in NIAny Person
- Sell or supply medicines in NI with incorrect packaging or leafletsAny Person
- Sell medicinal product with non‑compliant packaging or leafletAny Person
- Supply medicines with non-compliant packaging or leafletAny Person
- Sell medicinal product with non‑compliant packaging or leaflet in NIAny Person
- Sell or supply medicines with incorrect packaging or leaflets in Northern IrelandAny Person
- Sell medicinal product with non‑compliant packaging or leaf‑letAny Person
- Supply medicine with faulty packaging or missing leafletAny Person
- Fail to comply with medicines regulator improvement noticeAny Person
- Fail to comply with MHRA compliance noticeAny Person
- Use child-resistant and opaque packaging for regulated medicinesTrader
- Sell medicinal product in improper container or prohibited aspirin/paracetamolAny Person
- Sell medicines in wrong packaging or banned children's painkillersAny Person
11 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Advertising
19 of 42 sections shown- Advertise medicinal product without marketing authorisationAny Person
- Publish unauthorised medicinal product advertisementAny Person
- Ensure all medicines advertising is accurate, objective, and approvedAny Person
- Establish a scientific service and maintain advertising recordsAny Person
- Publish advertisement for abortion-inducing productsAny Person
- Publish advertisement likely to promote abortion medicationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Include regional availability statements in medicine advertisementsTrader
- Publish misleading diagnosis-related medical adsAny Person
- Publish prohibited medicinal product advertisementAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Publish misleading advertisement for a medicinal productAny Person
- Publish misleading medicinal product advertisementAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Advertise medicinal products to childrenAny Person
- Publish medicinal product advertisement directed at childrenAny Person
- Supply medicines to the public for promotional purposesAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Ensure abbreviated medicine ads include required safety info and websiteAny Person
- Meet strict conditions before supplying free medicine samplesDistributor
- Restrict content of advertisements for registered homeopathic productsAny Person
- Include specific wording in advertisements for traditional herbal medicinesAny Person
- Provide copies of medicinal product advertisements to Ministers upon requestAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Ministers must issue a final decision on medicine advertisement compatibilityCrown / Minister / Government department
- Publish a corrective statement if your medicine advertisement is ruled illegalAny Person
- Fail to comply with MHRA notice or corrective requirementAny Person
- Fail to comply with regulatory notice or corrective statement requirementAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Ministers must consider complaints about illegal medicine advertisementsCrown / Minister / Government department
- Publish court decisions and corrective statements if orderedAny Person
23 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
British Pharmacopoeia
2 of 5 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Government must publish official lists of approved medicine namesCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- BPC must prepare and Ministers may publish documents on medicinesStatutory regulator
3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Enforcement
5 of 14 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Minister for Health must enforce medicines regulations in Northern IrelandCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Regulators must provide ID and notify owners when seizing itemsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Inspector must provide a sample of seized medicines upon requestStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Regulators must report on inspection findings and allow business commentsStatutory regulator
- Obstruct an inspector, give false information, or unlawfully disclose informationAny Person
- Obstruct inspector or refuse to comply/assistAny Person
Unlimited fine
9 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Miscellaneous and general
7 of 20 sections shown- Apply false warranty or certificate to a medicineAny Person
- Misuse of warranties or certificates for medicinesAny Person
- Personal liability for directors and officers in medicines offencesDirector or Officer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must provide reasons and appeal info for decisionsStatutory regulator
- Provide information or assistance within the regulator's specified deadlineAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Government must pay enforcement expenses to regulatorsCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must maintain and update list of medicine exemptionsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must review medicines regulations every five yearsCrown / Minister / Government department
13 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Schedules
234 of 846 shown- Submit detailed information when applying for a manufacturer's licenceApplicant
- Comply with standard manufacturer's licence conditionsLicence Holder
- Submit required information for traditional herbal registrationApplicant
- Limit pack sizes for aspirin, paracetamol, and ibuprofen on general saleTrader
- Follow specific labelling requirements for homeopathic medicinesManufacturer
- Label traditional herbal medicinal products with required safety statementsAny Person
- Ensure certain medicines are sold only through a pharmacyAny Person
- Sell listed medicines only from a pharmacy unless authorised for general saleDistributor
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Ministers must provide advisory bodies with resources to operateCrown / Minister / Government department
- Inform customers about missing product labelling detailsLicence Holder
- Notify MHRA of changes to manufacturer or importer detailsLicence Holder
- Keep records of intermediate products used to make biological medicinesLicence Holder
- House and manage production animals to match authorisation provisionsManufacturer
- Ensure accuracy of information provided to the licensing authorityLicence Holder
- Ensure cross-border special medicinal product orders comply with regulation 167Licence Holder
- Only manufacture EAMS medicines for the Early Access to Medicines SchemeLicence Holder
- Maintain an MM master file for each licensed MM medicinal productLicence Holder
- Record required manufacturing and assembly details in the MM master fileLicence Holder
- Keep MM master file up to date and consistent with marketing authorisationLicence Holder
- Make MM master file available to licensing authority on requestLicence Holder
- Submit annual updates to your MM master fileLicence Holder
- Keep your manufacturing supervision arrangements under reviewLicence Holder
- Record and report suspected adverse reactions to MM medicinal productLicence Holder
- Maintain a POC master file for each POC medicinal productLicence Holder
- Ensure POC master file contains all required informationLicence Holder
- Keep POC master file information up to date and consistent with marketing authorisationLicence Holder
- Make POC master file available to the licensing authority on requestLicence Holder
- Submit annual POC master file updates to the licensing authorityLicence Holder
- Review and maintain adequate supervision and control at POC sitesLicence Holder
- Record and report suspected adverse reactions for POC medicinal productsLicence Holder
- Place quality control system under a notified qualified personLicence Holder
- Provide import information to the licensing authority on requestLicence Holder
- Keep batch documentation available for inspection and allow copiesLicence Holder
- Place quality control system under authority of notified personLicence Holder
- Withhold non-conforming batches from distribution when directedLicence Holder
- Test ingredients from finished medicinal product or at approved earlier stageLicence Holder
- Give 28 days' notice before importing special medicinal productsLicence Holder
- Ensure information provided to licensing authority is not false or misleadingLicence Holder
- Supply special medicinal products between GB and NI only on valid ordersLicence Holder
- Import EAMS products only when needed for the schemeLicence Holder
- Don't provide false or misleading information to the medicines regulatorLicence Holder
- Label immediate packaging of exempt advanced therapy medicinal products correctlyLicence Holder
- Include all required particulars in the package leafletLicence Holder
- Keep clinical trial data for the period set by the licensing authority (over 30 years)Licence Holder
- Only use licensed or approved premises for medicines handling and storageLicence Holder
- Provide information about medicines you handle, store or distributeLicence Holder
- Ensure information provided to the licensing authority is not false or misleadingLicence Holder
- Only import special medicinal products from approved countries under strict conditionsLicence Holder
- Import EAMS medicines only when required for the schemeLicence Holder
- Notify MHRA at least 28 days before importing a special medicinal productLicence Holder
- Record batch numbers and adverse reactions for special medicinesLicence Holder
- Limit the quantity of special medicinal products imported per occasionLicence Holder
- Notify the MHRA immediately if an imported medicine becomes unsafeLicence Holder
- Provide information about your manufacturing activities when requested by the licensing authorityLicence Holder
- Do not advertise special or EAMS medicinal productsLicence Holder
- Cease importing or supplying special/EAMS products upon written notice from licensing authorityLicence Holder
- Only supply special medicinal products across GB-NI border with a compliant orderLicence Holder
- Retain data for over 30 years as specified by licensing authorityLicence Holder
- Notify MHRA of changes to key personnelLicence Holder
- Keep batch documentation available for inspection by licensing authorityLicence Holder
- Keep batch samples of finished medicinal products available for inspectionLicence Holder
- Withhold non-conforming batch from distribution when directedLicence Holder
- Test medicinal product samples after manufacturing is completeLicence Holder
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must appoint a review panel and provide hearing opportunityStatutory regulator
- Submit written summary of oral representations and supporting documents within 3 monthsApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide and notify applicant within 60 days of hearing reportStatutory regulator
- Arrange data access with a manufacturer’s licence holder if your licence endsLicence Holder
- Ensure traceability system meets requirements for human cells and tissuesLicence Holder
- Do not import or export exempt advanced therapy medicinal productsLicence Holder
- Obtain exempt advanced therapy medicinal products only from licensed suppliersLicence Holder
- Distribute exempt therapy products only to authorised recipientsLicence Holder
- Set up a traceability system for advanced therapy medicinal productsLicence Holder
- Report adverse reactions to exempt advanced therapy medicinesLicence Holder
- Keep product data for 30 years after medicine expiryLicence Holder
- Ensure medicine data stays available if your licence endsLicence Holder
- Report adverse reactions to medicines to the MHRA within 15 daysLicence Holder
- Do not import or export exempt advanced therapy medicinal productsLicence Holder
- Ensure human cell/tissue donation, procurement and testing follows legal requirementsLicence Holder
- Ensure imported human tissue/cells meet equivalent quality and safety standardsLicence Holder
- Ensure imported blood meets UK quality and safety standardsLicence Holder
- Follow EU good distribution practice for exempt advanced therapy productsManufacturer
- Set up a risk management system when the licensing authority asks in writingLicence Holder
- Set up a traceability system for advanced therapy medicinal productsLicence Holder
- Keep exempt advanced therapy product data for 30 years after expiryLicence Holder
- Provide required information when registering to handle active substancesManufacturer
- State in registration whether active substances are for special medicinal products or exportAny Person
- Provide address of premises for keeping living animals or animal materialsApplicant
- Provide responsible person's details for manufacturing authorisationApplicant
- Include pharmacovigilance system details in marketing authorization applicationApplicant
- Provide foreign authorisation and safety data with your applicationApplicant
- Declare any previous refusal of a marketing authorisation in your applicationApplicant
- Keep orphan designation and Agency opinion for NI product salesAny Person
- Display additional monitoring symbol on medicinal productsManufacturer
- Include description of cells/tissues origin in product summary for advanced therapy medicinesManufacturer
- Submit required documents for a parallel import licence applicationApplicant
- Provide details of imported product to licensing authority on requestManufacturer
- Provide environmental risk evaluation if requestedApplicant
- Provide pharmacovigilance system summary if requestedApplicant
- Provide risk management plan and summary when requestedApplicant
- Provide summary of product characteristics if licensing authority requestsApplicant
- Provide and maintain adequate staff, premises and plant for medicine manufactureManufacturer
- Keep samples of batches and starting materials for inspectionManufacturer
- Set up a complaints and recall system for medicinal productsManufacturer
- Notify marketing authorisation holder of material changes to facilities, equipment, operations, and arrangementsManufacturer
- Provide and maintain staff, premises, equipment and facilities to prevent medicine deteriorationManufacturer
- Set up an independent quality control departmentManufacturer
- Manufacture medicines to the approved quality, strength and purity standardsManufacturer
- Maintain an effective pharmaceutical quality assurance systemManufacturer
- House and manage animals in compliance with marketing authorisationManufacturer
- Test your medicines for strength, quality and purity as per your licenceManufacturer
- Inform marketing authorisation holder of changes to premises, plant, or key personnelManufacturer
- Keep durable batch records of manufacture and testsManufacturer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Regulator must tell you if your variation is accepted or rejectedStatutory regulator
- Send variation implementation information without delay when the licensing authority asksAny Person
- Request a recommendation on unclassified variations from the MHRAManufacturer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must consider revised product information as part of variationStatutory regulator
- Submit each medicine variation separately unless you qualify for groupingManufacturer
- Include required details in medicines variation applications/notificationsApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide on marketing authorisation applications and notify the applicantStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must notify applicants of non-safety related decisionsCrown / Minister / Government department
- Respond to MHRA notification within 28 days (oral review or written representations)Any Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must notify applicant of proposed decision and allow representationsStatutory regulator
- Submit written representations within 28 daysApplicant
- Provide written summary of oral representations within 28 days of requestApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Committee must notify licensing authority if applicant fails to make representationsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide on proposed decision and notify applicantStatutory regulator
- Submit written representations and documents within deadline after requesting the opportunityApplicant
- Submit written summary and documents to committee for oral hearing requestApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Appropriate committee must notify licensing authority of applicant’s failure to make representationsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must confirm or alter decision after committee report and notify applicantStatutory regulator
- Request representations within 28 days of proposal notificationApplicant
- Submit written representations within the deadline if you appeal a licence decisionApplicant
- Provide written summary and documents if you request an oral hearingApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Appropriate committee must notify licensing authority if applicant fails to make representationsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide medicinal product applications and notify applicantsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Appropriate committee must notify you of provisional opinion in writingStatutory regulator
- Submit written representations within 6 months (or shorter deadline set by committee)Applicant
- Provide written summary of oral representations within 6 months of requestApplicant
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Appropriate committee must notify the licensing authority when a hearing is missedStatutory regulator
- Maintain and update a Pharmacovigilance System Master File (PSMF)Any Person
- Manage human resources for pharmacovigilance activitiesEmployer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must ensure competent personnel and training for pharmacovigilanceStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must establish pharmacovigilance procedures and processesStatutory regulator
- Report adverse reactions using individual case safety reports (ICSRs)Manufacturer
- Keep a pharmacovigilance system master file with the required contentManufacturer
- Submit complete and accurate individual case safety reports to the MHRAManufacturer
- Report suspected adverse reactions in specified electronic formatManufacturer
- Provide a public summary of your risk management plan for each medicineManufacturer
- Submit updated risk management plan to the licensing authorityAny Person
- Ensure risk management plan follows prescribed formatManufacturer
- Prepare and submit periodic safety update reports for your medicinal productsManufacturer
- Properly manage post-authorisation safety studies (submit and store data)Manufacturer
- Keep pharmacovigilance master file annex up to dateManufacturer
- Submit non-interventional safety study protocol in required formatManufacturer
- Submit your final study abstract in the required formatAny Person
- Keep pharmacovigilance system master file up to date with version controlAny Person
- Keep pharmacovigilance system master file documents complete, legible, and retrievableAny Person
- Ensure permanent access to the pharmacovigilance system master file (PSMF) for qualified personsManufacturer
- Establish and use a quality system for pharmacovigilance activitiesManufacturer
- Include marketing authorisation number on product labelManufacturer
- Include your name as holder on medicine product labellingAny Person
- State on the label if medicine contains human or animal cells or tissuesManufacturer
- Include method of use and dose space on medicine labelsManufacturer
- Include child-safety storage warning on medicine labelsAny Person
- Include any special warning on the product labelAny Person
- Show marketing authorisation holder's name and address on medicine labellingManufacturer
- Label exempt ATMPs with patient ID and 'for autologous use only'Manufacturer
- State intended age group (babies, children or adults) in medicine product informationAny Person
- Include pharmaceutical form and quantity on product labelManufacturer
- List excipients on medicinal product labelsAny Person
- Include excipient list on medicine labels/leafletsManufacturer
- Include age group indication on product labelling when appropriateManufacturer
- Show common name of each active substance on medicine product infoManufacturer
- List authorised product names for each member state in the package leafletManufacturer
- Add black-triangle monitoring warning on qualifying medicinal productsAny Person
- Include therapeutic group/type of activity in patient informationManufacturer
- Provide description of cells/tissues and origin in product applicationApplicant
- Include therapeutic indications in the patient information leafletManufacturer
- Include required safety information in medicinal product literatureManufacturer
- Include required information in patient information leafletManufacturer
- Provide full proper-use instructions with medicinesAny Person
- Include required warnings and composition in medicine package leafletManufacturer
- Cover special users, driving effects and key excipients in patient leafletManufacturer
- Include adverse reaction, dosage and method details in advertsAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officers must retain and submit medicine samples for testingStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officer must notify UK manufacturer within 3 daysStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officers must send samples for analysis to designated medicine laboratoriesCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officer must use approved laboratories for sample analysisStatutory regulator
- Analyse or examine enforcement samples without delayAny Person
- Send certificate of analysis results to the sampling officerAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officers must divide, mark, seal and handle samples properlyStatutory regulator
- Notify the other side if relying on a certificate or certifier as a witnessAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officer must pay for samples taken when requiredStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officers must give sellers one part of purchased samplesStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officer must give vending machine owner part of sampleStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officer must give one part of sample to consigneeStatutory regulator
- Provide adequate first-aid equipment and facilitiesEmployer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officer must supply sample part to consignorStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officer must supply sample part to ownerStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Sampling officer must tell sample recipient it is for analysisStatutory regulator
- Provide information to licensing authority upon requestAny Person
- Handle pre-Brexit EU variations of converted marketing authorisations under UK rulesManufacturer
- Tell MHRA about EU variation notifications for converted marketing authorisationsAny Person
- Provide product information when requesting an early variation of a converted EU authorisationManufacturer
- Submit renewal application for converted EU marketing authorisation started before IP completion dayManufacturer
- Submit baseline data with renewal application for converted EU marketing authorisationManufacturer
- Provide specified product information with early renewal applicationsManufacturer
- Notify MHRA of EMA-notified labelling changes for converted EU marketing authorisationsAny Person
- Notify MHRA within 6 months to continue importing medicines from approved countries after BrexitLicence Holder
- Notify MHRA of EMA-labelling changes in baseline data and stop if opposedManufacturer
- Notify MHRA of proposed changes to labelling or package leaflet before data submission dateAny Person
- Understand batch testing conditions for biological medicines after BrexitManufacturer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must publish and maintain an approved‑country list including all EEA states during the transitional periodStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide UK marketing authorisation applications within set timelinesStatutory regulator
- Notify MHRA of Plasma Master File updates and changes from EMAAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must finalise outstanding EU Article 31 referral procedures for UK marketing authorisationsCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must assess pending variation applications under UK rules post-BrexitStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must publish and maintain batch testing country listStatutory regulator
- Appoint a UK contact person and notify MHRAAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must grant or determine pending homoeopathic product applications within specified timelinesStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must decide on incomplete EU referrals and act on certificatesStatutory regulator
- Notify MHRA of a UK-based contact person for your traditional herbal registrationAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must publish list of equivalent countries for active substance importStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must keep EEA states on approved countries list for traditional herbal medicines during transitional periodCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide pending traditional herbal registration applications quicklyStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must finalise outstanding Article 31 referrals for traditional herbal registrationsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- MHRA must decide pending traditional herbal registration applications after Brexit dayStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority must decide unfinished EU pharmacovigilance referrals for UK medicinesCrown / Minister / Government department
- Provide further information to MHRA if requested during ongoing PSUR assessmentAny Person
- Provide MHRA requested information on ongoing study protocolsAny Person
- Complete follow-up steps for pending final study reports after IP completion dayAny Person
- Holders of converted EU marketing authorisations must ensure medicines are prescription-onlyAny Person
- Submit baseline data for converted EU marketing authorisationsManufacturer
- Give a false warranty or certificate of analysisAny Person
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