Animal health professionals

On this page, you will find information on the Agency’s activities, including news and events, that are most relevant to Animal health professionals and users of veterinary medicines such as pet owners. You can contribute to the Agency’s work by responding to public consultations. Learn more about the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP) and its role regarding medicines for veterinary use.

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  Webinar on reporting suspected side effects

  Learn how to report suspected side effects with veterinary medicines at our joint webinar with the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe on 30 March 2021. The webinar will also cover changes in veterinary pharmacovigilance once the Veterinary Medicines Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/6) applies from January 2022. Register to attend by 25 March.

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  Access policy for Union Product Database

  Check our access policy to see the types of information different user groups will be allowed to access once the Union Product Database becomes operational in January 2022. The Union Product Database will contain information on all authorised veterinary medicines and their availability in EU Member States.

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  Veterinary medicines: highlights of 2020

  In 2020, EMA recommended 20 medicines for marketing authorisation, including 13 with a new active substance. Vaccines accounted for 10 newly authorised medicines, more than twice the number authorised the previous year, 8 of which were biotechnological vaccines.

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  Responsible use of antibiotics: What’s your role?

  To mark European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18 November 2020, EMA has developed a set of info-cards with recommendations on how to use antibiotics responsibly. EMA encourages veterinarians to follow these recommendations and to share them with others.

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  Implementation of the new Veterinary Medicines Regulation

  Check our newsletter for an update on progress towards implementing the new Regulation.

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  Suspected side effect reports of veterinary medicines

  EMA is making suspected side effect reports of veterinary medicines authorised in the EU publicly accessible in the European database for suspected adverse drug reaction reports. The reports come from Eudravigilance Veterinary (EVVet), a database for processing pharmacovigilance reports of authorised veterinary medicines.

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