Ministers’ Deputies

Notes on the Agenda

CM/Notes/1017/6.3a       25 January 2008[1]

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1017 Meeting, 6 February 2008
6 Social cohesion

6.3 European Pharmacopoeia

a. European Committee on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical care (CD-P-PH) –

Draft revised terms of reference

Item prepared by the GR-SOC on 17 January and 5 February 2008

Reference documents:
CM(2007)183-rev

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Action: To adopt the revised terms of reference of the European Committee on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical care (CD-P-PH), as they appear in document CM(2007)183-rev.

1.         At its meeting on 17 January 2008, the GR-SOC examined the revised terms of reference of the Public Health Committee (Partial Agreement) (CD-P-SP), as they appeared in document CM(2007)183.  During discussions, it was proposed that legal advice be sought with a view to allowing the name of the committee, which appears in the text of the Convention on the Elaboration of a European Pharmacopoeia, to be changed, to more accurately reflect its actual functions (cf. GR-SOC(2008)CB1).

2.         The GR-SOC will resume examination of this item at its meeting on 5 February 2008 on the basis of document CM(2007)183-rev with a view to recommending the adoption by the Deputies, in their composition restricted to the representatives of the States Parties to the Convention on the Elaboration of a European Pharmacopoeia,[2] of the appended draft decisions which provide the possibility for the name of the committee to be modified, without amendment to the Convention.  

3.         The Chair of the GR-SOC will provide an oral report on the results of this examination.

Financing assured: YES

DRAFT DECISIONS

1017th meeting – 6 February 2008

Item 6.3a

European Pharmacopoeia

a.         European Committee on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical care (CD-P-PH) –

Draft revised terms of reference

(CM(2007)183-rev)

Decisions

The Deputies, in their composition restricted to the representatives of the States Parties to the Convention on the Elaboration of a European Pharmacopoeia,[3]

1.         adopted the terms of reference of the European Committee on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical care (CD-P-PH) as they appear at Appendix … to the present volume of Decisions; <CM(2007)183-rev>

2.         decided that the European Committee on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical care (CD-P-PH) would carry out the tasks of the Public Health Committee set out in the Convention on the Elaboration of a European Pharmacopoeia (ETS No. 50), as amended by the Protocol (ETS No. 134);

3.         agreed that any reference to the "Public Health Committee" in the said Convention and Protocol should now be understood as referring to the European Committee on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical care (CD-P-PH).