Accelerating stakeholder collaboration to enhance the clinical trials environment in the EU

20 March 2024 - The Accelerating Clinical Trials in the EU (ACT EU) initiative has established a multi-stakeholder platform aimed at ...

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Paving the way towards coordinated clinical trials in public health emergencies in the EU

25 July 2023 - EMA has published a report from a workshop that collected insights and suggestions for possible EU level ...

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EMA addresses considerations for single-arm trials

21 April 2023 - A new reflection paper from the EMA offers some suggestions to sponsors on how to design ...

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Replacing RCTs with real world data for regulatory decision-making: a self-fulfilling prophecy?

2 March 2023 - Real world data are advocated as an alternative approach to randomised clinical trials for closing knowledge gaps ...

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Use of Clinical Trials Information System becomes mandatory for new clinical trial applications in the EU

31 January 2023 - From 31 January 2023, all initial clinical trial applications in the European Union must be submitted via ...

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Facilitating decentralised clinical trials in the EU

19 December 2022 - The European Commission, the Heads of Medicines Agencies and the EMA have published recommendations that aim to ...

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Accelerating clinical trials in the EU: publication of 2022-2026 workplan

30 August 2022 - The European Commission, the Heads of Medicines Agencies and the EMA have published the  2022-2026 workplan ...

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EMA launches pilot project on analysis of raw data from clinical trials

12 July 2022 - EMA has launched a pilot project to assess whether the analysis of ‘raw data’ from clinical ...

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Regulatory harmonisation of clinical trials in the EU: clinical trials regulation to enter into application and new clinical trials information system to be launched

25 January 2022 - On 31 January 2022, the clinical trials regulation will come into application harmonising the submission, assessment and ...

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Accelerating clinical trials in the EU: for better clinical trials that address patients’ need

13 January 2022 - Today, the European Commission, the Heads of Medicines Agencies and the EMA have launched an initiative to ...

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Working towards harmonised access to clinical trial data across European drug regulatory agencies

31 July 2021 - On 31 May 2021, a group of researchers and NGOs submitted an open letter to the ...

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Six month countdown to go live for the Clinical Trials Information System

2 August 2021 - The European Commission has confirmed that the entry into application of the Clinical Trials Regulation and ...

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International regulators and WHO call for wider public access to clinical data

7 May 2021 - The International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities and the World Health Organisation are urging pharmaceutical companies to ...

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Clinical Trials Information System reaches major milestone towards go-live and application of the Clinical Trial Regulation

21 April 2021 - EMA’s Management Board confirmed that the clinical trial EU Portal and Database, one of the main deliverables ...

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Strengthening global collaboration on COVID-19 real-world evidence and observational studies

23 October 2020 - Medicines regulators from around the world discussed their experiences with supporting and assessing real-world evidence to facilitate ...

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