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The European Medicines Agency's machine-readable website exports: the full register of 2,754 human and veterinary medicines assessed through the EU centralised procedure with their EMA product numbers, ATC codes, therapeutic indications, authorisation and opinion dates, plus live medicine supply shortages, orphan designations, paediatric investigation plans, safety referrals, PSUSA outcomes, direct healthcare professional communications, maximum residue limits, herbal monographs, scientific guidelines, news and events.

Capabilities (15)

GET /v1/data/ema/dhpc1 credit

Returns all 175 DHPCs, the urgent safety letters sent to prescribers, each with name_of_medicine, active_substances, dhpc_type, procedure_number, regulatory_outcome, referral_name, ATC code, therapeutic_area_mesh, nationally authorised medicines also affected and the dissemination_date.

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GET /v1/data/ema/events1 credit

Returns all 2,509 past and upcoming EMA events with title, date_start_end_dates, location, whether the event is online or live_broadcast, publication dates and the event url.

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GET /v1/data/ema/guidance-pages1 credit

Returns the 1,068 general guidance and information pages of the EMA website with title, summary, categories, publication dates and the page url - the site sections not covered by the other exports. categories is a semicolon-joined set drawn from Human, Veterinary, Herbal and Corporate and is empty on ~17% of rows.

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GET /v1/data/ema/herbal-medicines1 credit

Returns the 251 herbal substances on EMA's inventory, each with latin_name, botanical_name, english_common_name, whether it is a combination, therapeutic_area, status, outcome_of_european_assessment and the dates it joined the inventory and the priority list.

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GET /v1/data/ema/maximum-residue-limits1 credit

Returns all 529 MRL assessments for pharmacologically active substances used in food-producing animals, each with active_substance, mrl_therapeutic_classification, target_species, the Commission implementing decision date and the regulation number and URL.

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GET /v1/data/ema/medicines1 credit

Returns all 2,754 human and veterinary medicines that have been through the EU centralised procedure, each with name_of_medicine, ema_product_number, medicine_status, opinion_status, INN, active_substance, therapeutic_area_mesh, atc_code_human or atcvet_code_veterinary, pharmacotherapeutic group, full therapeutic_indication text, the orphan/biosimilar/generic/PRIME/conditional/advanced-therapy flags, marketing authorisation holder, and the evaluation, opinion, Commission decision, suspension and withdrawal dates.

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GET /v1/data/ema/medicines-outside-eu1 credit

Returns the 19 Article 58 scientific opinions on medicines intended for markets outside the EU, each with name_of_medicine, ema_opinion_number, ema_opinion_status, active_substance, INN, therapeutic_area_mesh, atc_code_human, therapeutic_indication, opinion_holder and the opinion and outcome dates.

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GET /v1/data/ema/news1 credit

Returns all 3,896 EMA news items with title, news_summary, whether it is a press_release, the related medicines or referrals, categories, topics, publication dates and the article url.

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GET /v1/data/ema/orphan-designations1 credit

Returns all 3,310 EU orphan designations and refusals, each with medicine_name, active_substance, eu_designation_number, related_ema_product_number, the intended_use (the rare condition), status and date_of_designation_or_refusal.

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GET /v1/data/ema/paediatric-investigation-plans1 credit

Returns all 3,394 PIP decisions, each with pip_number, decision_number, decision_type, decision_date, active_substance, invented_name, therapeutic_area, condition_indication, pharmaceutical_forms, routes_of_administration and the compliance outcome and opinion date.

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GET /v1/data/ema/post-authorisation-procedures1 credit

Returns the 153 open or concluded post-authorisation applications (variations and extensions) with an opinion or withdrawal, each with name_of_medicine, ema_product_number, active_substance, post_authorisation_procedure_status, post_authorisation_opinion_status and date, marketing authorisation holder and the medicine-type flags.

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GET /v1/data/ema/psusa1 credit

Returns all 2,737 PSUSA procedures, each with procedure_number, the active substances in scope, related_medicines and the regulatory_outcome of the single assessment.

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GET /v1/data/ema/referrals1 credit

Returns all 592 EU referral procedures, each with referral_name, referral_type, class, current_status, whether it is a safety_referral, the centrally and non-centrally authorised medicines caught by it, PRAC recommendation text, and the procedure start, PRAC recommendation, CMDh position, CHMP/CVMP opinion and Commission decision dates.

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GET /v1/data/ema/scientific-guidelines1 credit

Returns all 999 EMA scientific guideline pages with title, category, first_published_date, last_updated_date and the page url. category is a semicolon-joined set drawn from Human, Veterinary, Herbal and Corporate (e.g. "Human;Veterinary"), so match on substring, not equality.

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GET /v1/data/ema/shortages1 credit

Returns the 85 EU-wide medicine supply shortages EMA is tracking, each with medicine_affected, supply_shortage_status ("Shortage ongoing", "Shortage resolved" or "Medicine discontinued"), INN, therapeutic_area_mesh, pharmaceutical_forms_affected, strengths_affected, availability_of_alternatives, start_of_shortage_date, expected_resolution_date and a free-text expected_resolution.

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Licence

EMA's Legal notice, under "European Medicines Agency copyright and limited reproduction notices", states: "The contents of these webpages are (c) EMA [1995-2026]. In particular, unless otherwise stated or unless indicated by EMA following the required consultation set out below, EMA is the owner of copyright and other intellectual property rights for documents and other content published on this website. This is according to current European Union and international legislation. Information and documents made available on EMA's webpages are public and may be reproduced and / or distributed, totally or in part, irrespective of the means and / or the formats used, for non-commercial and commercial purposes, provided that EMA is always acknowledged as the source of the material. Such acknowledgement must be included in each copy of the material. Citations may be made from such material without prior permission, provided the source is always acknowledged. The above-mentioned permissions do not apply to content supplied by third parties. Therefore, for documents where the copyright vests in a third party, permission for reproduction must be obtained from this copyright holder. The above-mentioned permissions also do not apply to photos or other materials that are not under the copyright of EMA." The EMA logo is carved out: "The European Medicines Agency logo is the exclusive property of the European Medicines Agency. Its use is prohibited without our prior written permission." Citation format asked for: "To cite material from the EMA's website, please list it with the URL, and the month and year you accessed it." The same site's Disclaimer adds: "EMA accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever ... arising out of, or in connection with, the information on this site", that the information is "not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date" and is "not professional or legal advice", and that "it cannot be guaranteed that a document available online reproduces an officially adopted text precisely. Thus, in case of disagreement, the official adopted text will always prevail." The JSON files themselves are published for exactly this use: "You can download structured JSON data files to automatically access and retrieve up-to-date information and documents from the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) website. These data files specifically target use via automated systems."

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Attribution

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Source: European Medicines Agency (EMA), www.ema.europa.eu - reproduced under EMA's limited reproduction notice

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