Dr. Paul Corkery:

Until recently, each member state would have its own list of products authorised by its own equivalent competent authority, as the HPRA does here. Thus what is happening over time is the EMA itself, just as it was the body that approved the Covid vaccines, will be doing the approvals for most veterinary medicines going forward. Any new medicine has to be approved through the European centralised process. All those new medicines must be prescription only. Throughout the whole community now, those prescriptions are by vets.