Search for medicinal products requiring a special permit
In addition to the ERKKA system, Fimea's FimeaWeb has also been updated, allowing the applicant to also apply for medicinal products requiring a special permit. The purpose of the update is to respond to the need expressed by parties to find both human and veterinary medicinal products that are both authorised and not authorised in Finland through a single service. A medicinal product-level Fimea-ID will be introduced for medicinal products requiring a special permit. The Fimea-ID will compile information in the updated FimeaWeb on the medicinal product packages that can be released for consumption under a special permit. This will respond to the need to increase clarity on the packaging of medicines released for consumption with a special permit.
Fimea-ID brings together all packages of a medicinal product that can be released for consumption with the same special permit granted by Fimea. The packaging of a medicinal product may differ, for example, in terms of package size, importer, distributing pharmaceutical wholesaler, marketing authorisation holder or country of marketing authorisation. As of February 2025, the Fimea-ID will be listed in special permit decisions, and it can also be used in FimeaWeb searches.
You can search for medicinal products for which Fimea has already granted special permits for human or veterinary use, with the name of an active substance or trade name. The search result contains basic information about a medicinal product subject to a special permit, such as its trade name, strength, active substance, pharmaceutical form and package size. New information includes the type of medicinal product (Is it is a medicinal product with a marketing authorisation for humans or animals in the country of origin), the country of the marketing authorisation, the marketing authorisation number and Fimea-ID. The country of the marketing authorisation indicates the language of the package. The search result also shows information related to the special permit, i.e. what types of special permits have been valid or previously granted for the medicinal product applied for, and, in the case of a fixed-term special permit, its period of validity.