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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

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EMA/HMA Task Force on Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (TF-AAM)

Source: 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.

TF-AAM claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)

  • 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.)
  • 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.)
  • It functioned between 2016 and end of 2024. (Operational period of the task force.)

Scope note

For 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.

Sources

HMA / EMA Task Force on the Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (2016-2024)
Source document: EMA/HMA Task Force on Availability of Authorised Medicines for Human and Veterinary Use (TF-AAM)
European Medicines Agency (EMA) / Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA)EMA/724592/2022 Rev.2; EMA/857232/2016 Rev.2retrieved 2026-07-29

Verification file: pdf-raw/vet-drug-shortage/EMA_HMA_taskforce_vet_med_availability.txt