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KMAG 8 WEMU Guidelines

The document provides guidelines for applications to market medicines based on well established medicinal use from the Kosovo Medicines Agency. It defines well established medicinal use as a constituent of a medicine that has been safely and effectively used for at least 10 years, or 30 years for herbal medicines. Applicants must submit documentation of the constituent's safety and efficacy based on factors like time used, extent of use, and scientific literature. They must also provide a detailed bibliography addressing documentation of safety assessments, both favorable and unfavorable studies, and post-marketing experience with similar products.

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KMAG 8 WEMU Guidelines

The document provides guidelines for applications to market medicines based on well established medicinal use from the Kosovo Medicines Agency. It defines well established medicinal use as a constituent of a medicine that has been safely and effectively used for at least 10 years, or 30 years for herbal medicines. Applicants must submit documentation of the constituent's safety and efficacy based on factors like time used, extent of use, and scientific literature. They must also provide a detailed bibliography addressing documentation of safety assessments, both favorable and unfavorable studies, and post-marketing experience with similar products.

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Kosovo Medicines Agency

KMAG8

Guidelines for applications under the well established medicinal use (bibliographical) simplified
procedure

1. Introduction

These guidelines are derived from the relevant sections of Annex 1 analytical, pharmacotoxicological
and clinical standards and protocols in respect of the testing of medicinal products (as amended) to
Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the
Community code relating to medicinal products for human use.

2. Definition of well established medicinal use

Well established medicinal use is the reference to the constituent(s) of a medicinal product that
has/have a historically proven acceptable level of safety and with recognised efficacy based on the
following criteria:

2.1 the time over which a substance has been used with regular application in patients;
2.2 quantitative aspects of the use of the substance, taking into account the extent to which the substance
has been used in practice, the extent of use on a geographical basis and the extent to which the use of the
substance has been monitored by pharmacovigilance or other valid methods;
2.3 the degree of scientific interest in the use of the substance (reflected in the published scientific
literature) and the coherence of scientific assessments;
2.4 the period of time required for establishing a well established medicinal use of a constituent of a
medicinal product must not be less than ten years from the first systematic and documented use of that
substance as a medicinal product or thirty years in the case of herbal medicinal products.

3. Well Established Medicinal Use documentation requirements

For medicinal products that meet the definition of well established medicinal use, the applicant shall
submit the following data:

3.1 CTD Module 1 Administrative information, with particular reference to Module 1 Section 1.5 -
specific requirements for different types of applications, 1.5.1 information for bibliographical
applications. In this section a concise document (up to 5 pages) should be provided that summarises the
grounds and evidence used for demonstrating that the constituent(s) of the medicinal product have a well
established use with an acceptable level of safety and efficacy;

3.2 CTD Module 2 CTD summaries;

3.3 CTD Module 3 chemical, pharmaceutical and biological information;

3.4 For Module 4non clinical reports and Module 5 - clinical reports, a detailed scientific bibliography
shall be presented that addresses the following aspects:

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(i) factors described in 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 above;

(ii) documentation submitted by the applicant should cover all aspects of the safety assessment and must
include or refer to a review of the relevant literature, taking into account pre- and post-marketing studies
and published scientific literature concerning experience in the form of epidemiological studies and in
particular of comparative epidemiological studies. All documentation, both favourable and
unfavourable, should be communicated;

(iii) particular attention must be paid to any missing information and justification must be given why
demonstration of an acceptable level of safety can be supported although some studies are lacking;

(iv) the non-clinical overview must explain the relevance of any data submitted which concern a product
different from the product intended for marketing. A judgement must be made whether the product
studied can be considered as similar to the product which will be granted a marketing authorisation in
spite of the existing differences;

(v) post-marketing experience with other products containing the same components is of particular
importance and applicants should put a special emphasis on this issue.

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