Postponement of the ANZTPA Establishment Project
On 16 July 2007, the New Zealand State Services Minister Annette King announced that "The Government is not proceeding at this stage with legislation that would have enabled the establishment of a joint agency with Australia to regulate therapeutic products." She further advised that "The [New Zealand] Government does not have the numbers in Parliament to put in place a sensible, acceptable compromise that would satisfy all parties at this time. The Australian Government has been informed of the situation and agrees that suspending negotiations on the joint authority is a sensible course of action."
A link to that media release is included below. In addition, please also find below, a link to the 'ANZTPA update' published on the TGA website.
Australia and New Zealand expect that the work that has gone into establishing the joint scheme will not be lost. Until such time as there is agreement to resume the process to establish ANZTPA and the joint regulatory scheme, stakeholders are advised to refer instead to the following websites for regulatory matters:
- Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
- New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (Medsafe)
Officials in each country will now take stock of the work done to date with a view to identifying a course forward.
