{"topic_id":"EMA_HMA_TASK_FORCE_VET_MED_AVAILABILITY","category":"vet-drug-shortage","context":"---\ntopic_id: EMA_HMA_TASK_FORCE_VET_MED_AVAILABILITY\ncategory: vet-drug-shortage\ntitle: \"EMA/HMA Task Force on Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (TF-AAM, 2016-2024) — EMA's structural role in veterinary-medicine supply disruptions\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"EMA — HMA/EMA Task Force on the Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (2016-2024) page, retrieved 2026-07-29 via root@tokyo relay\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/vet-drug-shortage/EMA_HMA_taskforce_vet_med_availability.txt\nsource_type: official_web_page\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-29\ntokens_estimated: 240\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 3\nsource_document: \"EMA/HMA Task Force on Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (TF-AAM)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"European Medicines Agency (EMA) / Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA)\"\n  title: \"HMA / EMA Task Force on the Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (2016-2024)\"\n  url: \"https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/post-authorisation/medicine-shortages-availability-issues/hma-ema-task-force-availability-authorised-medicines-human-veterinary-use-2016-2024\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-29\"\n  ref: \"EMA/724592/2022 Rev.2; EMA/857232/2016 Rev.2\"\n  doc_type: \"official web page (first-hand English text; retrieved via Tokyo relay)\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# EMA/HMA Task Force on Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (TF-AAM)\n\nSource: EMA \"HMA / EMA Task Force on the Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (2016-2024)\" page, retrieved 2026-07-29 via the Tokyo relay. This P2 topic records EMA's **structural role in veterinary-medicine supply availability**: the HMA/EMA joint task force explicitly covered authorised veterinary medicines alongside human medicines from 2016 to end of 2024.\n\n## TF-AAM claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n\n- `The Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) / European Medicines Agency (EMA) Task Force on the Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (TF-AAM) provided strategic and structural solutions to tackle disruptions in the supply of medicines and ensure their continued availability in the European Union (EU).`   (EMA's joint task-force role on medicine-supply disruptions.)\n- `It focused on the availability of authorised human and veterinary medicines, irrespective of the authorisation route.`   (Veterinary medicines were explicitly in scope, all authorisation routes.)\n- `It functioned between 2016 and end of 2024.`   (Operational period of the task force.)\n\n## Scope note\n\nFor the live EU-level shortage-notification system (post-2024) see `EMA_VET_MEDICINE_SHORTAGE_ESMP`. EMA's veterinary committee is the Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP); the shortage-monitoring mechanism itself runs through ESMP.\n","sources":["EMA Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products — HMA / EMA Task Force on the Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (2016-2024) (retrieved 2026-07-29)"],"source":{"authority":"EMA Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products","title":"HMA / EMA Task Force on the Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (2016-2024)","url":"https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/post-authorisation/medicine-shortages-availability-issues/hma-ema-task-force-availability-authorised-medicines-human-veterinary-use-2016-2024","retrieved":"2026-07-29","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"EMA/HMA Task Force on Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (TF-AAM)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/vet-drug-shortage/EMA_HMA_taskforce_vet_med_availability.txt"},"source_document":"EMA/HMA Task Force on Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (TF-AAM)","source_file":"pdf-raw/vet-drug-shortage/EMA_HMA_taskforce_vet_med_availability.txt","tokens_estimated":240,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}