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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005/schedule-7/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2745",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005",
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  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Application for a variation",
  "text": "(1) An applicant must make a separate application for a variation for each change in the marketing authorisation (unless a change is a direct consequence of the first change) and the appropriate fee is payable for each application.\n(2) The fee for an extension of a marketing authorisation as specified in Annex II to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1084/2003 is the same as the fee for an application for a marketing authorisation for that product.\n(3) If the variation is one specified in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1084/2003, the fee is £330 for a variation specified as Type 1A in that Annex.\n(4) If the variation is specified as Type 1B in that Annex, the fee is £770 except in the following case—\nReductions to Type 1B fees\nVariation\nConditions\nFee\nIdentical changes to a number of products\nAll the products are from the same marketing authorisation holder\nThe fee for the first product is £770 and the fee for each subsequent product is £330\nSupporting data are identical\nAll applications are submitted at the same time\n(5) The fee for a variation classified as Type II in Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1084/2003 is £2,540 except in the following cases, where the fee is as specified:\nReductions to Type II fees\nChange\nConditions\nFee\na) Identical changes to a number of products.\nAll the products are from the same Marketing Authorisation holder.\nSupporting data are identical.\nAll applications are submitted at the same time\nThe fee for the first product is £2540, and the fee for each subsequent product is £330\nb) Change of Distributor.\n– No other aspect of the dossier is changed and the marketing authorisation holder remains the same.\n£770\nc) Change of legal entity of marketing authorisation holder.\n– No other aspect of the dossier is changed.\n£770\nd) Simple dosage instruction changes intended to remove ambiguity.\nThe change is not as a result of safety concerns.\nNo new studies are required to support the change.\nThe dosage regime remains the same.\n£770\ne) Addition or change to safety warnings.\nNo other aspects of the dossier are changed.\nNo safety warnings are removed.\nNo new studies are required to support the change and the proposed warnings serve to increase the protection of the user/ environment /target species as appropriate.\n£770\nf) Corrections or simple text lay out changes to Summary of Product Characteristics and/or product literature. Included in this is the introduction of multilingual labelling.\nThe changes are not a result of safety concerns.\nNo new studies are required to support the change and no other aspect of the dossier is changed.\nThe legibility of the current English labelling is not compromised.\nThe indications and warnings are the same in all languages\n£770\ng) Abbreviated resubmission of a previously refused Type II variation\nAt the time of refusal of a Type II variation, the Secretary of State has given written permission for resubmission under this category.\nThe application has been resubmitted within 3 months of the date the refusal advice was issued\n£770\nh) Submission made following the formal advice of the Secretary of State\nThe Secretary of State has already assessed the relevant data and formed an opinion on these.\nThe change is not required as a result of the holder failing to keep the Part II (quality) data in accord with current practice or in line with current guidelines issued by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use.\n£770\ni) Approval of a mock-up for an authorised pack size.\nThe pack size is already authorised.\nNo new studies are required to support the change and no other aspect of the dossier is changed.\n£770\nj) Changes to the Summary of Product Characteristics and product literature of a Marketing Authorisation for Parallel Import as a direct consequence of the approval of a variation to the Summary of Product Characteristics and product literature for the UK authorised product.\n– The only changes to the Summary of Product Characteristics and product literature are those required to bring the Marketing Authorisation for Parallel Import back in direct line with those of the UK authorised product.\n£770",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Committee was established by Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No. 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency, OJ No. L136, 30.4.2004, p. 1."
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