First industry standing group (ISG) meeting

As part of the EMA continuous improvement of industry stakeholders engagement (in line with its industry stakeholders framework), to facilitate regular exchange of views, promote dialogue and receive feedback, a new forum for interactions has been established the industry stakeholders group (ISG).

This new forum will be starting, in its pilot phase, with a restricted scope dedicated to industry stakeholders interactions to facilitate timely and efficiently EMA’s extended mandate (Regulation (EU) 2022/123) implementation and discuss and receive feedback on for instance new processes, IT tools (e.g. European shortage monitoring platform (ESMP) impacting industry stakeholders.

Specific topics related to the three main pillars of the EMA mandate extension will be discussed: Emergency Task Force (ETF), the medicines and medical devices shortages and finally medical device expert panels status activities development updates and processes development of specific industry stakeholders impact.