The Agency will provide secretarial support to the CMDs and their working parties, whose responsibilities will include: preparation and distribution of documents; provision of lists of positions taken on similar issues; follow-up to meetings; facilitation of liaison with other scientific working groups and with interested parties; assistance on preparation of annual reports; specific activities assigned to the CMDs under their work programmes; assistance in providing regulatory and legal support to CMD activities; coordination of the 60-days procedure for discussion in case of disagreement between Member States in mutual-recognition or decentralised procedures; and preparation of the list of medicinal products for which a harmonised SPC should be drawn up.
Το 2006 είναι το πρώτο πλήρες έτος λειτουργίας των ομάδων συντονισμού για τη διαδικασία αμοιβαίας αναγνώρισης και την αποκεντρωμένη διαδικασία (CMD) που συστάθηκαν από τη νέα κοινοτική νομοθεσία.