The European Medicines Agency is the agency of the European Union responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision and safety monitoring of medicines. It was set up in London as the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products and renamed in 2004. After Brexit it moved to Amsterdam in 2019. Pharmaceutical companies apply to it for centralized marketing authorization, valid in all member states: its committees assess the data, and the European Commission then issues the authorization on its recommendation. The agency works with the national medicines authorities in a network. During the COVID-19 pandemic it evaluated vaccines on an accelerated schedule, and in December 2020 it recommended the first one for authorization.
Before and after
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- from 11 December 1994 to 31 August 1996First Chechen War
- from 31 December 1994 to 8 February 1995Battle of Grozny
- 1995Release of Apache HTTP Server
- 1995Founding of European Medicines Agency
- 1995Launch of JSTOR
- 1995Creation of Ruby
- 1995Dogme 95
- 1995Creation of Red Hat Linux
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- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations
- 5 October 1948Founding of International Union for Conservation of Nature
- 5 May 1949Founding of Council of Europe
- 1960Founding of Somalia
- 1 October 1963Founding of Nigeria
- 1985Introduction of new shekel
The era
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