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Contact details

QWP Secretariat
EMEA
7 Westferry Circus
Canary Wharf
London E14 4HB

QWP@emea.europa.eu

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Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)

CHMP working parties

Joint CHMP-CVMP Quality Working Party

The Joint CHMP/CVMP Quality Working Party (QWP) provides recommendations to the Committees on matters relating directly or indirectly to the quality of human or veterinary medicinal products. On request of the Committees, the QWP is involved in such areas as the preparation, review and update of quality guidelines, the provision of scientific advice on general and product-specific matters relating to quality, the resolution of national divergences regarding the assessment of quality issues, liaison with interested parties, international cooperation on quality-related matters, etc.

All recommendations drawn up by the QWP are transmitted to the relevant Committee for adoption.

Mandate, rules of procedure and work programme

Further details of the QWP's responsibilities, composition etc. are available in the following documents:

Composition

The QWP is composed of experts selected from the European experts list according to their specific expertise in the area of quality assessment.

CVMP and CHMP members are invited to nominate one expert per Member State for products for human use and, where there is a separate agency for veterinary medicinal products, one expert per Member State for products for veterinary use.

The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM) may nominate an observer to participate in the work of the QWP.

Members

Below (in alphabetical order of surnames) are the names of the current members of the Joint CHMP/CVMP Quality Working Party: