What does MRP stand for?

REGULATORY "Essential Similarity" and the Mutual Recognition Procedure By Fran Boateng-Muhammad In November 2008 in Synthon v The Licensing Authority of the Department of Health the European Court of Justice (ECJ) was asked to address whether a Member State can refuse an application for mutual recognition on the grounds that the medicinal product is not essentially similar to the reference product.

Prexige is available in some European countries as a 100 mg once-daily treatment for osteoarthritic pain following EU approval through the Mutual Recognition Procedure (MRP) in October 2006, with the U.

For a drug, once a registration has been issued, multiple mutual recognition procedures have to be undertaken in order to gain access to other EC markets.

The company says Sweden will be the reference member state in the EU Mutual Recognition Procedure for Fosrenol and the first step towards securing approval throughout Europe.

This is the first marketing approval for Volplex, and it will be used as the basis for approval in the rest of the European Union through the mutual recognition procedure.

In December 2007, the product obtained regulatory approval across Europe under the European Mutual Recognition Procedure (MRP) with France as the Reference Member State.

In Europe, Labopharm's once-daily tramadol product has been approved in France and the company is completing the Mutual Recognition Procedure process, which will provide regulatory approval across the European Union.

The company says myfortic successfully completed the European Mutual Recognition Procedure (MRP) and was approved for the prevention of acute rejection of kidney allografts in adult patients on February 7, 2004.