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EGA Milestones

Milestones in the Life of EGA

• 1991

  EGA first organised informally in Brussels.

• 1993

  EGA’s statutes are published, and activities begin under its current structure & mission.

• 1995

  First EGA Annual Conference is held in London.

• 1995

  EGA membership is opened up to the Accession States and the countries of greater Europe.

• 1995

  Cyprus becomes first Accession Country to join the EGA, followed by Slovenia in 1997.

• 1996

  EGA is a founding member of IGPA, the International Generic Pharmaceutical Alliance.

• 1998

  EGA serves as host to the first Annual IGPA Conference in Rome.

• 1998

  The first EGA Award is given to the Dutch Institute for Effective Use of Medication (DGV) of the Netherlands.

• 2001

  EGA becomes a founding member of G10, the EU’s High Level Group on Innovation and Provision of Medicines.

• 2002

  EGA takes on its first humanitarian project: the development of generic medicines production in Afghanistan.

• 2004

  The EU Review of Pharmactical Legislation introduces major changes facilitating the approval of generic medicines: Bolar Provision, European Reference Product, Global Market Authorisation, and a Regulatory Pathway for Biosimilar Medicines.

• 2006

  2006 First approval of a biosimilar medicinal product in the EU.