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EU Promises ‘Unifying’ Stakeholder Forum To Discuss Changes To Clinical Trial Landscape

 
• By Ian Schofield

The new workplan for the EU's initiative on accelerating clinical trials lays out the timelines for a set of “priority actions,” such as mapping the European clinical trial environment and establishing a consolidated process for more efficiently managing scientific advice on trials.

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EU regulators are planning to set up a “unifying” platform in 2023 where stakeholders can hold regular discussions on ways of improving the European clinical trial landscape by identifying advances in trial methods, technology and science and finding “practical solutions” to drive change in this area. A concept paper on the platform is to be issued during the third quarter of this year.

Plans are also on the table to map existing clinical trial activities starting in Q4 2022, to identify and address any problems with the implementation of the EU Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR) and the Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS), and to

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