EMA also publishes information on critical shortages monitored at EU level by the Medicine Shortages Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Working Party.
EMA monitors critical medicine shortages that might lead to a crisis situation, and is involved in mitigating them, by working with the EU Member States and European Commission. For more information, see:
EMA's responsibilities in this area stem from Regulation on EMA’s Reinforced Role (Regulation (EU) 2022/123).
The Agency's shortages catalogue below contains information on supply shortages assessed by EMA.
The minutes of the Medicine Shortages Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Working Party meetings are also available:
National competent authorities typically handle shortages of nationally authorised products, particularly if they do not affect other countries. For information on specific shortages, you can check the national registers of shortages or visit the website of your national competent authority.
If you are having difficulty obtaining a medicine that has been prescribed to you, talk to your doctor or pharmacist.
You can find information on ongoing and resolved shortages of human medicines assessed by EMA under:
On this website you can find two types of communications to healthcare professionals that include information on medicine shortages:
Find medicine shortage communications via the link below:
Find direct health professional communications via the search result list linked below:
The table below contains the national registers of shortages for human and veterinary medicines.
Please note that the information in these national registers may not be available in English.
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Austria |
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Belgium |
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Bulgaria |
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Croatia |
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Cyprus |
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Czechia |
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Denmark |
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Estonia |
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Finland |
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France |
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Germany |
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Greece |
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Hungary |
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Ireland |
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Italy |
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Latvia |
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Lithuania |
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Luxembourg |
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Malta |
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Netherlands |
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Poland |
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Portugal |
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Romania |
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Slovakia |
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Spain |
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Sweden |
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Iceland |
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Liechtenstein |
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Norway |
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You can also find medicine shortage communication for healthcare professionals below by selecting the expandable panel below (via the downward arrow):
