COMPLIANCE WITH STANDARDS SPECIFIED IN MONOGRAPHS IN CERTAIN PUBLI CATIONS.

HC Deb 18 October 1968 vol 770 c801

Lords Amenmdent No. 85: In page 53, line 37, leave out from "any" to "and" in line 38 and insert: general monograph or notice or any appendix, note or other explanatory material which is contained in that edition and is applicable to that monograph".

Mr. Snow

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

It would be appropriate to take at the same time Amendments Nos. 86, 87, 88 and 89.

Mr. Snow

These five Amendments are concerned with the interpretation of monographs in official compendia. Amendment No. 85 makes it clear that all relevant provisions of an edition of a compendium apply to the interpretation of a monograph in it.

Amendments Nos. 86 to 89 enable the Medicines Commission to approve synonyms which are, for the purposes of Clause 58, to have the same validity as the name at the head of a monograph in the European Pharmacopoeia. This is necessary because a decision by the European Pharmacopoeia Commission to limit the number of names at the head of a monograph would otherwise result in the loss of official status for recognised synonyms.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.