French Agency To Boost EU Role & Open Up To Outside World
Executive Summary
France’s medicines and medical devices regulator wants to build up its role in the EU regulatory system, make its inner workings more accessible to stakeholders and the outside world, and improve the way it deals with medicine shortages.
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