Europe – Human medicines: highlights of 2022

In 2022, EMA recommended 89 medicines for marketing authorisation. Of these, 41 had a new active substance which had never been authorised in the European Union (EU) before. The  overview of the 2022 key recommendations published today includes figures on the authorisation of medicines and a selection of new treatments that represent significant progress in their therapeutic areas.

Public health emergencies remained a key priority for EMA in 2022. The highlights document summarises the most important recommendations on vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 and for mpox (monkeypox)