RASI FORCED FROM EMA TOP JOB BY COURT OVER APPOINTMENT PROCEDURE ERRORS

GUIDO Rasi, executive director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has been forced from his job by a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that concluded his 2011 appointment had been flawed procedurally. Rasi, a former director general of the Italian medicines agency, was supposed to serve for at least five years, with his renewable term of office expiring in November 2016. But his appointment was challenged in 2012 by a Bulgarian medicines regulator Emil Hristov who claimed he had been wrongly excluded from a short-list of candidates for the job. He ...


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