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Anna Wawrzyniak

Anna Wawrzyniak is a scientific and regulatory special counsel in the Life Sciences team. With a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, Anna provides detailed scientific and regulatory advice to the firm’s pharmaceutical, food and feed clients. She draws on her technical and regulatory expertise to help clients in strategic planning and in navigating regulatory proceedings, especially in areas where a deep understanding of the underlying science is important. In particular, she advises pharmaceutical clients on regulatory issues relating to product classification, biologics, advanced therapies, orphans, paediatrics, market and data exclusivities.

Anna has deep expertise in the following areas:

The development and approval of medicinal products;
Strategies for obtaining and maintaining regulatory exclusivities, including orphan market exclusivities, regulatory data exclusivities (new active substance status) and paediatric incentives;
Support to high stake litigation on regulatory aspects;
PRIME, accelerated approvals, conditional and exceptional marketing authorisations;
Advanced therapies, biologic and substances of human origin;
Borderline classification;
Regulatory due diligence;
Novel foods and food supplements; and
Feed.

On 26 April 2023, the European Commission published its long awaited proposal to revise the EU pharmaceutical legislation.  The proposal includes a new draft Regulation, which will repeal Regulation (EC) No 726/2004, the Orphan Medicines Regulation 141/2000 and the Paediatric Regulation 1901/2006.

As expected, the draft Regulation significantly shakes

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The European Commission (“Commission”) intends to change the rules on regulatory data protection (“RDP”) of medicinal products.  The Commission stated in its Impact Assessment for the revised pharmaceutical legislation that it wants to strike a balance between “providing attractive incentives for innovation and supporting timely patient access to medicinal

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