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1 Working document July 2014 Document for comment 1 2 MULTISOURCE ( generic ) PHARMACEUTICAL 3 PRODUCTS: GUIDELINES ON REGISTRATION 4 REQUIREMENTS TO ESTABLISH 5 INTERCHANGEABILITY. REVISION 6 (JULY 2014) 7 8 REVISED DRAFT FOR COMMENT 9 10 11 World Health Organization 2014 12 All rights reserved. 13 This draft is intended for a restricted audience only, the individuals and organizations having received this draft. 14 The draft may not be reviewed, abstracted, quoted, reproduced, transmitted, distributed, translated or adapted, in part or 15 in whole, in any form or by any means outside these individuals and organizations (including the organizations' 16 concerned staff and member organizations) without the permission of the World Health Organization.

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5 Working documents are sent out electronically and they will also be placed on the Medicines website for comment. If you do not already receive directly our draft guidelines please let us have your email address (to and we will add it to our electronic mailing list. Working document page 2 SCHEDULE FOR THE PROPOSED ADOPTION PROCESS OF DOCUMENT : 36 MULTISOURCE ( generic ) PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS: GUIDELINES ON 37 REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS TO ESTABLISH INTERCHANGEABILITY. 38 REVISION 39 40 41 42 Preliminary feedback for chapters to be revised and discussion during informal consultation with experts and prequalification assessors July 2013 Presentation of the outcome of the above consultation to forty-eighth meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for PHARMACEUTICAL Preparations October 2013 Revision of guidelines developed by Mr J.)

6 Gordon with input from the Prequalification Team and Professor Dressman, WHO Collaborating Centre on Bioequivalence Testing of Medicines, Frankfurt/Main, Germany April 2014 Circulation for comment May June 2014 Collation of comments 2 July 2014 Discussion during an informal consultation held together with the Prequalification Assessment Team 6 7 July 2014 Circulation of revised working document July 2014 Collation of comments and review by expert group September 2014 Presentation to forty-ninth meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for PHARMACEUTICAL Preparations October 2014 Further follow-up action as required.

7 Working document page 3 BACKGROUND 43 Over the course of time and especially in view of the implementation of the existing 44 guidelines1 the users have indicated that there was a need to review and update certain 45 requirements. The forty-eighth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert 46 Committee on Specifications for PHARMACEUTICAL Products discussed this and included the 47 following passage in its report (extract from the forty-eighth report): 48 WHO published MULTISOURCE ( generic ) PHARMACEUTICAL products: Guidelines on 49 registration requirements to establish interchangeability in 2006.

8 In preparation 50 for the revision of the WHO document, the Expert Committee received a report 51 that compared the WHO guidance on interchangeability with that of the European 52 Medicines Agency (EMA) and the United States Food and Drug Administration 53 (US-FDA). Guidance issues proposed for revision were highlighted. It was stated 54 that a first draft of the revision would be available in due course. The Committee 55 was also asked to consider to what extent WHO guidance should extend to non-56 biological complex drugs (NBCDs).

9 The Committee agreed that guidance for this 57 new group of products might be relevant if they were included in the EML and 58 asked the Secretariat to look into it. 59 In connection with the revision of these guidelines, the following related guidance texts 60 are also under review and update: 61 Proposal to waive in vivo bioequivalence requirements for WHO Model List of 62 Essential Medicines immediate-release, solid oral dosage forms 63 Annex 8, WHO Technical Report Series 937, 2006; 64 65 1 MULTISOURCE ( generic ) PHARMACEUTICAL products: guidelines on registration requirements to establish interchangeability.

10 In: WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for PHARMACEUTICAL Products. Fortieth report. World Health Organization, Geneva. WHO Technical Report Series. No. 937, Annex 7, 2006. Working document page 4 Additional guidance for organizations performing in vivo bioequivalence studies 66 Annex 9, WHO Technical Report Series 937, 2006; 67 68 Guidance on the selection of comparator PHARMACEUTICAL products for equivalence 69 assessment of interchangeable MULTISOURCE ( generic ) products 70 Annex 11, WHO Technical Report Series 902, 2002.