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PhEur Work Programme
The European Pharmacopoeia Commission has set the goals of rapidly increasing the number of European monographs (more than 2000 available so far), reducing the time needed to elaborate them, and, if the need is expressed, elaborating monographs on recent substances still under patent protection.
Modification Work Programme 062008 Modification of the Work Programme of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission (Decisions of the PhEur Commission, June 2008)
Hot Topics
Towards the 6th Edition (2007):
Special revision programme (impurities); Excipients: functionality-related properties;
Traditional herbal medicines (European, Chinese, Ayurvedic etc.);
Harmonisation with Japan and the USA (to continue);
For the 5th Edition (2004-2007):
Adapting to globalisation: impurities control for new sources;
New biological therapies (cell therapy, gene therapy products);
Modern methods in microbiology.
Knowledge Database
Status of the Ph. Eur. Work Programme
KNOWLEDGE will tell you if a specific substance or a method of analysis is part of the Pheur work programme, its state of work and additional useful information (chromatograms, trade names for chromatography colums). Access to KNOWLEDGE is also possible under DATABASES Menu (see left-hand side menu).
Calendar 2008-2009
Sessions European Pharmacopoeia Commission
25-27 November 2008 (132nd Session)
17-18 March 2009 (133rd Session)
30 June - 1 July 2009 (134th Session)
1-3 December 2009 (135th Session)
Latest Changes (Additions & Deletions)
The European Pharmacopoeia Commission, which holds three sessions per year, can in its decisions add to or delete substances from the work programme of the European Pharmacopoeia. For more information visit the KNOWLEDGE DATABASE.
Latest Enquiries
List of draft texts currently released for comments in PHARMEUROPA 20.3: 44 monographs or general methods submitted for public comment. Full text available in Pharmeuropa 20.3 (July 2008). Deadline for comments: 30 September 2008
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