An interim trade deal between the UK and Canada means that the regulators in these countries will carry on accepting each other’s batch testing and GMP certificates.

The trade deal agreed by the EU and the UK may have brought some relief to the life sciences sector in that it averts the chaos that would have followed failure to reach a deal, but it contains little that will have a direct impact on the regulation of medicines.

Hungary is going its own way when it comes to coronavirus vaccines, but its decision to allow the emergency use of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine may be only a symbolic expression of the government’s growing impatience with the EU.