In brief
On 21 December 2023, the Italian Medicines Agency updated the operating instructions and forms that can be used for the submission to the Biological Medicinal Product Evaluation Office of the documentation regarding the import and the export of human blood and blood components.
Key takeaways
In particular, the new operating instructions concern the telematic submission of import notifications for blood and its components, the annual import statement and its updates, and import or export authorization applications.
The AIFA also published new templates for the notification of imports of human blood and its components, for the annual import statement, pursuant to Art. 4 or Art. 6 of the Ministerial Decree of 2 December 2016, and for the update of the annual import statement.