Vaccines Working Party
The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Vaccines Working Party (VWP) was established by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) to carry out specific tasks related to vaccines.
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Role
The working party's tasks include:
- preparing, reviewing and updating scientific guidelines and concept papers on non-clinical and clinical development of vaccines against infectious diseases;
- providing product related support upon request from EMA Committees and the Scientific Advice Working Party;
- providing support upon request from other EMA working parties or expert groups;
- European and international co-operation relating to working party activities;
- liaising with interested parties, such as industry, patient organisations and healthcare professional organisations;
- providing trainings and workshops to assessors;
Mandate,rules of procedure and work programme
EMA has opened a public consultation on the draft 2025-2027 Vaccines Working Party (VWP) Workplan which constitutes the roadmap of VWP activities on the basis of evolving identified priorities.
The workplan has been adopted by EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) and is now open for public consultation. All key stakeholders are therefore encouraged to provide their feedback through the EU survey no later than EOB 06 December.
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The current three-year work plan is available below:
Composition
The working party is composed of five to nine experts from Member States, selected from the list of European experts and nominated by members of the CHMP. Experts are chosen on the basis of the best and available expertise needed for the working party to deliver its commitments..
The current members are listed below, in alphabetical order of surname. Their declarations of interests are available in the European experts list: