IFAH-Europe is pleased to announce its 2007 Conference on

“Veterinary medicines regulation -Is Europe still at the cutting edge of innovation?”
Brussels Marriott Hotel on 6 June 2007

The 2007 IFAH-Europe annual conference, “Veterinary medicines regulation -Is Europe still at the cutting edge of innovation?”, has gathered some 100 experts from European and national public authorities, industry and key stakeholders in Animal Health to exchange views on better regulation for the animal health industry. In line with the recent initiative by the European Union on better regulation, the conference featured various aspects of better regulation and IFAH-Europe presented the outcome of the 2006 benchmarking study as well as proposals to reform the current regulatory framework to enable innovation.

Speakers included representatives from the animal health industry, EU institutions and national authorities.

PROCEEDINGS: the detailed proceedings are available here

PRESS RELEASE: 7 June 2007 - Annual Conference stresses the importance of efficient regulation to sustain innovation and growth in the animal health sector

Pictures of the conference

 Opening session

• Introduction and welcome
  Brian Clark, IFAH-Europe Chair
  
• Better regulation in the European Union
  Jens Nymand-Christensen, Director for better regulation and institutional affairs, Secretariat General, European Commission

Session 1: Innovation and Impediments in the European animal health industry – a benchmarking study
Chaired by Neil Parish MEP, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee, European Parliament

• Results of the benchmarking study
  Declan O’Brien, IFAH-Europe Managing Director
• US experience of better regulation
  Michael J. McGowan, Animal Health Institute (USA)
• Comments from an EU perspective
  Martin Terberger, Head of Unit, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission

Session 2: Improving the regulatory framework
Chaired by Fernando Bernardo, Chief Veterinary Officer (Portugal)

• Reform proposals
  Neil Craven, IFAH-Europe
• Comments from a European perspective
  Steve Dean, Veterinary Medicines Directorate (UK)
• Closing words
  Declan O’Brien, IFAH-Europe Managing Director
  

 Parallel workshops

• Workshop 1: Data protection as a means to foster innovation
• Workshop 2: Challenges of the veterinary pharmaceutical legislation:
  • Single European reference product evaluation?
  • Multiple national authorisations?
• Workshop 3: Applying better regulation to the veterinary medicines sector
• Workshop 4: Veterinary pharmaceutical legislation – what have been the lessons of the pharma review 2001?

Presentation of workshop conclusions & recommendations