Zero Success For Companies Appealing Negative CHMP Opinions In EU Last Year
Executive Summary
All five of the appeals against negative opinions for new drug applications that the European Medicines Agency completed last year met with failure. On the positive side, 92 new medicines were granted positive opinions, of which 35 contained new active substances.
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