News about Licensing and supervision

  • Safer prescription of blood thinning agents

    | 04 September 2018 |

    A collaboration between pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies and authorities has eliminated a common cause of dosing errors involving blood thinning agents.

  • Danish Medicines Agency launches new concept for National Scientific Advice

    | 31 August 2018 |

    Today, 31 August 2018, the Danish Medicines Agency is launching a new concept for National Scientific Advice for companies, hospitals and others who request advice on the requirements applicable to clinical investigation and marketing authorisations.

  • Recall of valsartan blood pressure medicine

    | 10 August 2018 |

    Impurities that could potentially be harmful to health have been found in variants of medicines containing the active substance valsartan. The medicine is used to treat hypertension and heart failure. Patients treated with these medicines are therefore advised to contact their doctor as soon as possible in order to to be switched to another type of medicine.

  • Phase I clinical trials and non-commercial clinical trials now exempt from fees

    | 11 July 2018 |

    Fees are no longer charged for Phase I clinical trials and non-commercial clinical trials of medicines. This is the result of the Growth Plan for Life Science and the Budget for 2018. The new rules entered into force on 1 July 2018.

  • Better conditions for clinical trials in Denmark

    | 03 May 2018 |

    The Danish government, the Danish People's Party and the Danish Social-Liberal Party have agreed to exempt commercial sponsors from all fees for phase I clinical trials of medicines. The government has previously decided – in connection with the Budget Bill 2018 – to remove the Danish Medicines Agency’s fees for non-commercial (research-initiated) clinical trials of medicines.

  • DKMA Update March 2018

    | 28 March 2018 |

    In this issue of DKMA Update you can read about evidence; changes to Tramadol’s summary of product characteristics; inspections of the sale of OTC medicines outside pharmacies and much more

  • New concept for national scientific advice

    | 22 March 2018 |

    The Danish Medicines Agency will soon launch a new national scientific advice concept for companies, hospital researchers and others who require advice on requirements for marketing authorisations or clinical trials.

  • All marketing authorisation letters are now sent electronically to Danish companies

    | 01 March 2018 |

    On 20 February 2018, the Danish Medicines Agency extended its use of digital post and now sends all letters, and not just decisions, about marketing authorisations electronically to Danish companies.

  • Brexit, change of Reference Member State from UK to DK

    | 01 February 2018 |

    The Danish Medicines Agency would like to inform marketing authorisation holders that we welcome being the Reference Member State (RMS) for MRP/DCP authorised medicines, should you request Denmark as the future RMS when the UK is leaving the EU.

  • Updating of summaries of product characteristics due to changed ATC codes for 2018

    | 18 January 2018 |

    Marketing authorisation holders of medicinal products authorised under the national procedure, the decentralised procedure as well as the mutual recognition procedure should be aware that some ATC codes have been changed for 2018.

  • The European Commission has published three recommendations for the clinical trials regulation

    | 14 November 2017 |

    In cooperation with the clinical trials expert group, the European Commission is updating and issuing new recommendations as a result of the regulation on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use.

  • New format requirements for marketing authorisation applications from 1 January 2018

    | 10 November 2017 |

    The NeeS submission format will be discontinued for applications submitted under the mutual recognition procedure (MRP). This change is related to medicinal products for human use. Parallel import and parallel distribution are not affected by this change.

  • Self-selection of OTC medicines for human use

    | 25 October 2017 |

    On 1 January 2018, new rules on self-selection of OTC medicines become effective. With the change in law, certain OTC medicines will be available for self-selection, which means that they can be sold from shop areas and not only at the counter.

  • The Danish Medicines Agency contributes to review of Chinese medicines act

    | 10 October 2017 |

    On Monday 9 October, a Chinese delegation headed by Xu Jinghe visited the Danish Medicines Agency. Xu Jinghe is Director General of the CFDA's Department of Legal Affairs and one of the main architects of the renewal of the Chinese medicines legislation.

  • DKMA Update October 2017

    | 10 October 2017 |

    In this issue of DKMA Update, you can read about the decision to change the dispensing status of a number of opioids, about the new guidelines on medicinal cannabis for doctors, and about the executive order on the import of cannabis products.

  • Global operation against illegal medicines

    | 25 September 2017 |

    A global operation against illegal medicines has been completed. 123 countries participated, and the operation resulted in 354 arrests or further investigations and the suspension of more than 3,500 websites.

  • Decisions on marketing authorisations will be sent electronically to Danish recipients from October 2017

    | 20 September 2017 |

    From 1 October 2017, the Danish Medicines Agency's licensing division will send decisions on marketing authorisations (including any annexes) to Danish recipients and companies by digital post.

  • DKMA Update

    | 11 September 2017 |

    Our newsletter Danish Pharmacovigilance Update changes name to DKMA Update and will from now on contain information about medicinal products in general, patient safety and life science.

  • Withdrawal of one more batch of counterfeit packs of the schizophrenia medicine Xeplion 150 mg

    | 01 August 2017 |

    German and Danish parallel importers and the Danish Medicines Agency are now withdrawing the fourth batch of Xeplion 150 mg from wholesale distributors, hospitals and pharmacies, because the batch contains counterfeit packs.

  • Counterfeit packs of the schizophrenia medicine Xeplion 150 mg

    | 27 July 2017 |

    One German and several Danish parallel importers and the Danish Medicines Agency have withdrawn several batches of Xeplion 150 mg from wholesale distributors, hospitals and pharmacies, because the batches contained counterfeit packs.