EMA Hails Success Of COVID-19 Multi-Regulator Collaboration
Executive Summary
The international COVID-19 collaborative assessment pilot, OPEN, helped regulators to reach broadly similar conclusions on vaccines and therapeutics and to avoid differences in labeling. However, most experts involved agreed there was room for improvement in some areas, particularly gaps between submissions to the different regulators.
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