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Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices

Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices rather than just read about it. In short: The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (Spanish: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios; AEMPS) is a regulatory and autonomous agency of the Government of Spain that acts as the highest sanitary authority in the country in terms of medical safety on medicines, health products, cosmetics and personal care products. The agency is responsible for the regulation and authorization of clinica…

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Reference excerpt

The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (Spanish: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios; AEMPS) is a regulatory and autonomous agency of the Government of Spain that acts as the highest sanitary authority in the country in terms of medical safety on medicines, health products, cosmetics and personal care products. The agency is responsible for the regulation and authorization of clinical trials and the commercialization of sanitary products for human use, the planification and evaluation of those products along with the European Medicines Agency (EMA); the authorization of clinical laboratories, develop the specific rules to ensure the quality of the medical products and inspect all sanitary products of the central government competence. Since 1998, the agency has powers over the control, evaluation and authorization of animal health products. The agency was created under the name of Agencia Española del Medicamento by the Fiscal, Administrative and Social Order Measures Act of 1997 and its powers were extended (to fields such as veterinary drugs) by another law of the same name from 1998 and by the Cohesion and Quality of the National Health System Act of 2003. The statute of the agency was approved in 1999. It was renamed as Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios in August 2003. It depends directly from the Ministry of Health. The agency is chaired by a President and a Vice President. Both officials are Under Secretaries of the Ministry of Health and Agriculture. The real chief executive of the agency is the Director.

Organization chart The agency is divided in six type of bodies: Governing bodies, executive bodies, control committees, administrative bodies, supporting bodies and complementary bodies.

Governing bodies: President. It's the Secretary-General for Health, with the rank of Under Secretary. Vice President. It's the Secretary-General for Agriculture and Food, with the rank of Under Secretary. Governing Board. Control Committee. Executive Body. Director. Support body to the executive body. Administrative bodies. General Secretariat. Department for Drug Inspection and Control Department for Medicinal Products for Human Use Department for Health Products Department for Veterinary Drugs Complementary bodies. It is a series of organs made up of experts in specific subjects. Medicinal Products for Human Use Committee Safety of Medicinal Products for Human Use Committee Veterinary Medicines Committee Veterinary Medicines Safety Committee Technical Committee of the Spanish Pharmacovigilance System for Medicinal Products for Human Use Post-authorization Studies Coordination Committee Technical Committee of the Spanish Pharmacovigilance System for Veterinary Drugs Veterinary Medicines Availability Committee Pharmacopoeia Committee and the National Formulary Technical Inspection Committee Coordination Committee of Peripheral Pharmaceutical Services Health Products Committee Expert Network Committee.

See also Health care in Spain Spanish National Health System Pharmacoepidemiology

References Citations

Bibliography Palop Baixauli, Ramón (2004). "El futuro del medicamento y el papel de la Agencia Española del Medicamento y Productos Sanitarios". Revista de Administración Sanitaria Siglo XXI. 2 (1): 95–102. ISSN 1696-1641. Vidal Casero, María del Carmen (2000). "La evolución de la reglamentación de los medicamentos desde la promulgación de la ley del medicamento en 1990. Periodo 1990-2000: su problemática" (PDF). DS: Derecho y Salud. 8 (2): 95–110. ISSN 1133-7400.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices

In research: Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1997 establishments in Spain, Government agencies established in 1997, Government agencies of Spain, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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