{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-596/annex/division-1/division-1.5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/596",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Four",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-596",
  "path": "annex/division/1/division/1.5",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1.5",
  "heading": "Directive 2001/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use",
  "text": "As regards Directive 2001/20/EC, the Commission should be empowered in particular to adopt principles relating to good clinical practice and detailed rules in line with those principles, to lay down specific requirements and to adapt certain provisions. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 2001/20/EC, inter alia, by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.\nAccordingly, Directive 2001/20/EC is hereby amended as follows:\n1.. Article 1(3) shall be replaced by the following:\n‘3. The Commission shall adopt the principles relating to good clinical practice and detailed rules in line with those principles and shall, if necessary, revise those principles and detailed rules to take account of technical and scientific progress. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 21(3).\nThe principles and detailed rules shall be published by the Commission.’;\n2.. Article 13(1) shall be replaced by the following:\n‘1. Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the manufacture or importation of investigational medicinal products is subject to the holding of authorisation.\nThe Commission shall lay down the minimum requirements which the applicant and, subsequently, the holder of the authorisation must meet in order to obtain the authorisation.\nThose measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 21(3).’;\n3.. Article 20 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘Article 20 The Commission shall adapt this Directive to take account of scientific and technical progress.\nThose measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 21(3).’;\n4.. Article 21 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘Article 21 1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Standing Committee on Medicinal Products for Human Use, referred to in Article 121(1) of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community Code relating to medicinal products for human use.\n2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.\nThe period referred to in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.\n3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 121, 1.5.2001, p. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 311, 28.11.2001, p. 67.’"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "implicit repeal",
      "affecting": "eur/2015/2283",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on novel foods, amending Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1852/2001 (Text with EEA relevance)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/596/annex/division/1/division/1.5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:25.189323+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}