Veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) are a set of measures to facilitate pharmacovigilance for veterinary medicines in the European Union (EU) / European Economic Area (EEA). They apply to marketing-authorisation holders, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and medicines regulatory authorities in EU Member States.
They cover veterinary medicines authorised centrally via the Agency as well as medicines authorised at national level.
As of 28 January 2022, the VGVP guideline superseded previous EU guidance on pharmacovigilance for veterinary medicines.
VGVP modules
Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Collection and recording of suspected adverse events for veterinary medicinal products
This module of the guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) brings together general guidance for marketing authorisation holders, national competent authorities and the Agency on the requirements, roles, activities and procedures related to collection and recording of suspected adverse events for veterinary medicinal products occurring within the EU/EEA or in third countries.
The completed comments form should be sent to Vet-Guidelines@ema.europa.eu.
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Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Signal Management
This module of the guidelines on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) brings together general guidance for marketing authorisation holders, national competent authorities and the European Medicines Agency (the “Agency”) regarding signal management for veterinary medicinal products authorised in the European Union (EU).
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Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Veterinary pharmacovigilance communication
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Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Pharmacovigilance systems, their quality management systems and pharmacovigilance system master files
This module of the guidelines on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) addresses the basic requirements on the pharmacovigilance system, its integral quality management system and the pharmacovigilance system master file that marketing authorisation holders for veterinary medicinal products authorised in the European Union (EU) should establish and maintain.
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Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Controls and pharmacovigilance Inspections
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Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Glossary
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Eudravigilance Veterinary - Best Practice Guide (EVV BPG)
This document provides guidance to all registered user organisations and their individual users (EVWEB and Gateway users) that record suspected adverse event reports (AERs) in the Union pharmacovigilance database, EudraVigilance Veterinary (EVV).
Eudravigilance Veterinary - Best Practice Guide
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Draft VGVP modules and comments received
Draft guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Collection and recording of suspected adverse events for veterinary medicinal products
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Overview of comments received on 'Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP)’ (EMA/635856/2020) - Module: Collection and recording of suspected adverse events for veterinary medicinal products
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Draft guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Signal Management
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Overview of comments received on 'Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP)’ (EMA/399713/2020) - Module: Signal Management
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Draft guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Veterinary pharmacovigilance communication
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Overview of comments received on 'Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP)’ (EMA/63454/2021) - Module: Veterinary pharmacovigilance communication
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Draft guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Pharmacovigilance systems, their quality management systems and pharmacovigilance system master files
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Overview of comments received on 'Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP)’ (EMA/257136/2021) - Module: Pharmacovigilance systems, their quality management systems and pharmacovigilance system master files
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Draft guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Controls and pharmacovigilance Inspections
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Overview of comments received on 'Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP)’ (EMA/328998/2021) - Module: Controls and pharmacovigilance Inspections
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Draft guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP) - Module: Glossary
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Overview of comments received on 'Guideline on veterinary good pharmacovigilance practices (VGVP)’ (EMA/118227/2021) - Module: Glossary
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