European Medicines Verification Organisation
The European Medicines Verification Organisation was established by the European Commission to administer the Falsified Medicines Directive.
It maintains a database of unique identifiers supplied pharmaceutical suppliers in respect of each unit of sale package they manufacture or repackage. This is to contain:
In August 2018 it warned that only 841 of the 2,291 pharmaceutical companies with marketing authorisations to supply prescription medicines to the European Economic Area had completed the first stage of connection to the EU Hub, which may take up to six months.
