Which Company WILL BE the EMVO On-Boarding Partner?

A corporation/group of companies has to decide which legal entity will act as their On-boarding Partner (OBP). All relevant data of the Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAH) of the corporation/group of companies will be transferred via the OBP to the EMVO (EU Hub).

Description MAH

A Marketing Authorisation Holder is the organisation which owns the serialisation data and which is accountable for uploading the data to the EU Hub (e.a. XYZ Sales Company in EU member country). Possibly an affiliate of the OBP; for smaller companies the MAH and OBP could be the same.

Description EMVO OBP

An OBP is a legal entity that is part of a Corporation or a Group and will send data to the EU Hub on behalf of Marketing Autorisation Holders that are also part of that corporation. The group of MAHs represented by the OBP either consists of Original Pack Manufacturers (MAH without Parallel Distribution Activities) or Parallel Distributors (MAH with Parallel Distribution Activities).

The OBP is the contracting party of EMVO and concludes the Participation Agreement. The OBP is legally authorised to sign on behalf of a MAH/a group of MAHs. The OBP has to be affiliated to a MAH/a group of MAHs.

Who is affected by the Falsified Medicines Directive?

All Marketing Authorisation holders of “Medicinal products subject to prescription (which) shall bear the safety features referred to in point (o) of Article 54, unless they have been listed in accordance with the procedure pursuant to point (b) of paragraph 2 of this Article. Medicinal products not subject to prescription shall not bear the safety features referred to in point (o) of Article 54, unless, by way of exception, they have been listed in accordance with the procedure pursuant to point (b) of paragraph 2 of this Article, after having been assessed to be at risk of falsification.”

 

Affiliation

Affiliate means

in relation to a party, any other entity Controlling, Controlled or under common Control with the party.

“Control” and its derivatives mean

either the holding, directly or indirectly, of 50 % or more than 50% ownership interest or the statutory or de facto authority to exercise a decisive influence on the appointment of the majority of directors or managers or the orientation of policy provided it is, at EMVO’s own absolute discretion, sufficiently proven.

START THE ON-BOARDING PROCESS

Which Company WON'T BE the EMVO On-Boarding Partner?

CMO’s (Contract Manufacturing Organisations) and 3PL’s (Third Party Logistics providers) are employed by OBP’s (On-boarding Partners) to provide services on their behalf and will generate data that has to be provided to the EMVS by some means. CMO’s and 3PL’s do not hold any rights, and therefore no responsibility concerning the product.

The main steps of the On-boarding Process for EMVO On-boarding Partners

Contractual On-boarding (managed by EMVO CPM)

Before an OBP can connect to the EU Hub, it needs to sign the OBP Participation Agreement (PA). This document is provided in the OBP Portal.

The following four steps are summarised as Contractual On-boarding to the EMVO.

  1. Participation Request
  2. Detailed Information and Participation Agreement
  3. Legitimacy Check

As part of this process, and to ensure that only legitimate companies can access the EU Hub, a legitimation process will be executed. This step also contains the payment. When the contractual On-boarding is done, the Technical On-boarding Process starts.

Technical On-boarding (managed by EMVO Operations)

 

During the Technical On-boarding, the OBP will connect to the three EU Hub environments. In the picture below, the high-level actions of each environment are described.