The Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) officially joined the PIC/S - Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention and Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme as its 55th Participating Authority, effective from July 1, 2023. PIC/S is a non-binding co-operative arrangement between Regulatory Authorities in the field of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) of...
Starting on 1 July 2019, the Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) announced they will accept submissions via CESP, the Common European Submission Portal. During the pilot phase CESP submissions were limited. From 1 July 2020 BDA resumes accepting all types of applications and documents via CESP, except...
In July 2019, the National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (NAMMD) was reorganised and changed its name to National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices of Romania (NAMMDR). This change needs to be considered in relation to the communication with the Agency and, more...
After February 9th 2019 the EU drug verification system (established by the Falsified Medicines Directive (Directive 2011/62/EU) and further detailed by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161) became applicable. The Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) and the Bulgarian Medicines Verification Organisation (BGMVO) published the first Guidelines for managing...
The Romanian Drug Agency (ANMDM) published on their website scientific decision No 4/24.10.2018 implementing the document of European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the defective product report (EMA/INS/GMP/35037/2017). Marketing authorisation holders (MAHs) have to report to ANMDM all the non-conformities related to the quality of medicinal...
Starting in February 2018, the Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) applies additional requirements to the applicants when presenting proof of payment. These regard the fees paid for the administrative procedures managed by the BDA: marketing authorisations (MA) or registrations, variations, renewals of MA, transfer of MA,...
The Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) announced that they will initiate the procedure to become a member of the Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S). PIC/S is a non-binding, informal co-operative arrangement between Regulatory Authorities in the field of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) of medicinal products for human...
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 of 2 October 2015 supplemented Directive 2001/83/EC regarding the safety features appearing on the packaging of medicinal products for human use. In line with that, it is required that manufacturers place safety features consisting of a unique identifier (2D data...
In May 2016 the Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) completed the first DCP with RMS Bulgaria. They now announced that in August 2016 the first mutual recognition procedure (MRP) will start with reference member state (RMS) Bulgaria and the concerned member state is Romania. Both procedures...
The Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) announced that on May 10th, 2016 they completed the first decentralised procedure for authorising medicinal product where the reference member state (RMS) is Bulgaria. The procedure has been accepted by all six concerned member states. Gaining experience to act as RMS...