2022
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Applications for compassionate use permits on weekdays between Christmas and New Year
| 02 December 2022 |
The Danish Medicines Agency will be closed over Christmas and New Year, reopening on 2 January 2023. During this period, we will, however, handle urgent applications for compassionate use permits (applications for dispensing of non-marketed medicines).
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Notification of medicine price and assortment changes between Christmas and New Year
| 02 December 2022 |
The Danish Medicines Agency is closed between Christmas and New Year. This means that there is no support regarding notification of medicine price and assortment changes from Monday 26 December 2022 to and including 30 December 2022.
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The deadline for receipt of applications for company authorisations is 22 December in 2022
| 02 December 2022 |
Applications for company authorisations will be received no later than December 22, 2022. Applications received after this date will be considered received on January 2, 2023. Fee rates and exceptio
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Deadline for applications for export certificates for medicines in 2022
| 02 December 2022 |
Applications for export certificates for medicines must be received by 14 December 2022 at the latest if they are to be processed before Christmas. Applications submitted after 22 December will be c
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Deadline for submission of applications for medical device export certificates in 2022
| 02 December 2022 |
The last day for submitting an application for a medical device export certificate will be 14 December 2022. Any application received after that will be considered received on 1 January 2023.
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Deadlines to apply for the issuance of import or export certificates for euphoriant substances before Christmas
| 02 December 2022 |
Applications for import/export certificates submitted via NDS Web must reach us by 16 December 2022 to be reviewed before Christmas.
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Change of practice for the Danish Medicines Agency’s inspections
| 04 November 2022 |
The Danish Medicines Agency is now implementing the digital signing system called Penneo. As of 1 November 2022, we will be using digital signatures to sign all inspection reports.
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2022 deadline for submitting applications concerning marketing authorisations and clinical trials
| 19 October 2022 |
The deadline for submitting applications concerning marketing authorisations and clinical trials is 20 December 2022. The Danish Medicines Agency is closed for the Holiday Season, from 24 December, 2022, until 1 January, 2023, both days included. Applications concerning marketing authorisations and clinical trials need to be submitted before 20 December, 2022. We will consider applications submitted after 20 December, 2022, as if they have been received 2 January 2023.
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Current Danish QRD template to be used in connection with the granting of marketing authorisations
| 11 October 2022 |
Going forward, the current Danish QRD template is to be used for submissions of translations for new marketing authorisations under the mutual recognition procedure or the decentralised procedure as w
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Invitation to EMA Organisation Management Service (OMS) Trouble Shooting Sessions for CTIS users
| 30 August 2022 |
Before applying for clinical trials with investigational medicin products under the EU Clinical Trials Regulation no. 536/2014 (EU CTR), sponsors and trial sites have to be registered in EMAs Organizational Management Service (OMS). EMA is now inviting all sponsors and trial sites to online trouble shooting sessions, where they can submit questions in advance (see tabel below) concerning organisation and site registration in OMS.
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Expression of interest for onsite participation in ACT EU workshop on Decentralised Clinical Trial guidance on October 4th 2022 – Response deadline is September 06th 2022.
| 25 August 2022 |
New and innovative clinical trial designs and methodologiesprovide opportunities and challenges for the EU clinical trials environment. The EU decentralised clinical trials (EU DCT) project aims to address some of these challenges, in line with the European Medicines Agencies Network Strategy to 2025 and European Commission’s Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe. Since March 2022, the Clinical Trials Coordination Group (CTCG) under the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have been responsible for the project management of the EU Decentralised Clinical Trials (EU DCT) project, with Ditte Zerlang Christensen of the Danish Medicines Agency (DKMA) as the project manager. The ACT EU Programme will host a multi-stakeholder workshop on DCTs on behalf of the EU DCT project, bringing together participants from all areas of the research community to share perspectives on this type of clinical trials. The multi-stakeholder workshop will be an onsite meeting hosted by EMA on October 4th 2022. A live broadcast of the workshop’s plenary session will be provided, open to all interested parties.
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Operation PANGEA 2022: 500 packages seized in the customs and 35 websites reported to the police for illegal trading in pharmaceuticals
| 28 July 2022 |
The last days of June saw the roll out of the 2022 version of the Interpol-managed Operation Pangea XV – a global initiative targeted illegal trade with medicines and medical devices. The Danish Medic
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New Data Ethics Charter provides a framework for the Danish Medicines Agency’s use of health data
| 05 July 2022 |
The Danish Medicines Agency has adopted a Data Ethics Charter consisting of seven principles of data ethics. The charter is to set high ethical standards for the protection and handling of the health data included in the scientific and statistical analytical work performed by the agency.
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The Danish Medicines Agency will be closed on Friday 10 June 2022
| 08 June 2022 |
The Danish Medicines Agency will be holding its staff convention and will be closed on Friday 10 June 2022 However, we process urgent applications for compassionate use permits (applications for d
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New executive order raises fees in the area of the Danish Medicines Agency
| 03 May 2022 |
Higher fees become payable for medicinal products and pharmaceutical companies as a result of a new executive order entering into force on 1 May 2022. The last time the fees were adjusted was in 2017.
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Management of clinical trials in light of the current situation in Ukraine
| 06 April 2022 |
The current situation in Ukraine can have an impact on the conduct of clinical trials. It can affect both the supply of trial-related drug products and the collection of critical data. Therefore, an initial guidance on the management of clinical trials in light of the situation have been issued by the European Commission (EC), the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Clinical Trials Facilitation and Coordination Group (CTCG).
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Danish Medicines Agency presents new strategy
| 05 April 2022 |
Lars Bo Nielsen, Director General of the Danish Medicines Agency, announces new 2022-26 strategy for the agency. The strategy supports the Danish Ministry of Health’s joint corporate strategy and emphasises a vision to lead national and international collaboration, for example regarding better use of data and new technology and dialogue with public and society in general.
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Crisis in Ukraine may impact review times and the prioritisation of cases
| 07 March 2022 |
As a result of the crisis in Ukraine, the Danish Medicines Agency performs tasks relating to the supply of medicines to the Danish market.
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Assessment of new names of authorised veterinary medicines under the new veterinary regulation
| 22 February 2022 |
The assessment of names for already authorised veterinary medicines must be approved by the Danish Medicines Agency before the submission of a variation application.