In Brief: U.S.-EU GMP Mutual Recognition

U.S.-EU GMP Mutual Recognition: Negotiations are expected to recommence the week of Jan. 27 in Washington, D.C., after stumbling early in the month when the EU Commission expressed reservations about exchanging inspection reports under any MRA. The EU also called for shortening the equivalency determination period from 3 years to 18 months. Negotiators had believed a compromise was reached at a Chicago meeting of the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue Nov. 8-9, and had vowed to complete an MRA by the end of January ("The Pink Sheet," Nov. 18, 1996, T&G-13)...