Membership Norway

Directive 75/319/EEC laid down the legal basis for the establishment of the Committee on Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP), a scientific advisory body. Each Member State is represented at the CPMP by its named representative and a specified alternative, who both have voting rights. This committee met for the first time in November 197 6, at which time there were nine Member States in the Community. Since then the membership of the EU has increased to 15 and therefore correspondingly of the CPMP to 30. Iceland and Norway are also represented, each by two non-voting members. 

Not only functional properties of the colom must be considered but also local legislation should be taken into account. The EU Directive 94/36/EC, often referred to as the Colours Directive, is implemented throughout the member states. Here the approved colours ate listed together with conditions for their use. Several non-EU countries such as Norway and Tmkey have adopted this directive and some Eastern European countries ate also preparing to follow it, as their membership of the EU moves closer. 

The pharmacists represented a special professional group related in different ways to the chemists in various countries. In the Netherlands, the pharmacists were welcome to become members of the chemical society if they so wished. The case was the same in (at least) Belgium, Czech Lands, Denmark and Norway, whereas the pharmaceutical chemists were explicitly excluded from membership of the chemical societies in some of the other countries, such as Britain. Different local reasons for the differences have been discussed in some of the previous chapters, and we can only conclude that although chemistry historically has had long and strong ties to pharmacy, the two disciplines had largely become differentiated by the late nineteenth century. This is also reflected in the formation of self-contained associations dealing with the specific interests of the pharmacists. 

Patenting in a large nnmber of countries involves a great deal of duplication of effort and is expensive. As a resnlt, a number of European countries have combined together to simplify procedure and to cnt costs. The European patenting system is separate from the European Union, althongh there is an inevitable overlap of membership. All members of the European Union have signed the European Patent Convention, plus Switzerland and Norway. 

CEN Comite Europeen de Normalization -European Committee for Standardisation EU and EFTA countries (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland) Limited membership through national standardisation bodies (delegation)... 

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