Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP)

As is customary and with full transparency, the FAMHP publishes the figures and results for 2019 for all its services and activities.
​You are receiving this annual report later than you would normally expect from us, as the COVID-19 health crisis has been given priority over the past year. The annual report contains many novelties, rising and falling trends and interesting figures. 2019 was a year of progress, you can read all about it in the FAMHP digital annual report, which is available...

The FAMHP launches PharmaStatus, the new online application that collects information about the availability of medicines in Belgium and makes it public. Current information will help patients, doctors, pharmacists and the pharmaceutical industry to limit the impact of unavailable medicines.

In 2019, operation Pangea took on a new form. This operation focused on information collection, analysis and communication. For this twelfth edition, that took place from June 2018 to June 2019, the FAMHP provided the necessary data. Pangea is coordinated by INTERPOL and is specifically designed to intercept illegal and counterfeit medicinal products and devices.

Improved communication with partner organizations, increased accessibility to innovation for patients with urgent medical needs, an increasingly significant presence on social media … 2018 was marked by exciting developments for the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP). You can discover everything in the annual report.

The campaign will run from the 19th to the 23rd of November and is part of an awareness week of 32 drug authorities from the EU, South America, the Middle East and Australia.

In 2017, the 460 employees of the FAMHP closed more than 8,000 applications for marketing authorisation for medicines, carried out no less than 2,200 inspections and investigations, analysed more than 10,000 reports of adverse effects, reactions and incidents, and answered more than 250 press questions.

The Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP) published its annual report 2016.

The federal agency for medicines and health products (famhp) published its annual report 2015.