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The article describes the new European procedures, centralized and dec
entralized, for bringing veterinary medicinal products to the market.
It explains how the relevant Belgian authorities, responsible for auth
orisation matters, have integrated these new procedures into their str
uctures. It comments the objectives of the new European Agency for the
Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) and the role of the European
Commission as a decision making body, giving legal force to the Agency
's scientific opinions.