Capital: Warsaw

Language: Polish

Population: 38 million

Climate: Temperate with mild summers and moderately severe winters

Currency: Zloty (PLN, zł), 1 zloty = 100 groszy

Approx. 11 500 authorized medicinal products

GENERAL INFORMATION

Poland

has beautiful coastal beaches and dunes, lake districts carved out by

glaciers, plains as flat as a pastry board, lush forests, mountains old

and new, including the only Table Mountains in Europe, and even a

desert region.

GEOGRAPHY

Poland had two historical capitals – Gniezno and Krakow and the present

capital is Warsaw – These cities should not to be missed when travelling

along the historical trail.

HISTORY

These are the most important dates in Polish History

966 – Baptism of Poland

1410 – Battle of Grunwald

1772 – The First Partition of Poland

1791 – Constitution of May 3

1793 – Second Partition of Poland

1795 – Third Partition of Poland

1816 – The Kingdom of Poland

1914 - 1918 – World War I

1918 – Polish Independence

1939 – 1945 – World War II

1989 – Fall of Communism

1999 – Accession to NATO

2004 – Accession to the European Union

These are the names of Poles who are famous worldwidely

Nicolaus Copernicus – the astronomer and author of “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”

Frederic Chopin – one of the greatest pianists of the 19th century

Maria Sklodowska-Curie - discovered polonium and radium and did research into radioactivity and its use in cancer treatment

Karol Wojtyla, known as Pope John Paul II

Polish Nobel prize winners include: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Wladyslaw Reymont, Czeslaw Milosz, Lech Walesa and Wislawa Szymborska

WHAT AND WHERE

MEETINGS OF POLISH PRESIDENCY

 • Meeting of the Group for Coordination of Mutual and Decentralized Procedure – CMDh (28-30 of September, Warsaw);• Meeting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use – CHMP (28-30 of September, Warsaw);• Meeting of the Pediatric Committee – PDCO (28-30 of September, Warsaw); Meeting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use –CVMP (19-21 of September, Warsaw);• Meeting of the Group for Coordination of Mutual and Decentralized Procedure (veterinary) – CMDv (19-21 of September, Warsaw); Meeting of the Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products – HMPC (5-7 of October Warsaw); Meeting of the Pharmacovigilance Working Party – PhVWP (5-7 of October Warsaw);

• European Medicines Agencies Cooperation on Legal and Legislative Issues – EMACOLEX 11-12 of October, Warsaw

• Competent Authority Medical Devices Meeting – CAMD (26-28 of October, Krakow); Central Management Committee Meeting – CMA (26-28 of October, Krakow).

PROPOSED ITEMS FOR AGENDA

• Court cases,• Transposition problems of the new legislation on

pharmacovigilance and falsified medicinal products,• Other subjects you find interesting.• Please, kindly send your proposals of subjects you would

like to present in Warsaw to: lidia.retkowska@urpl.gov.pl• cc to rafal.gizinski@urpl.gov.pl , for court cases also to: JULIAN.SHELLARD@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK by July 15, 2011

VENUE

The Marriot Hotel downtown Warsaw

We will be happy to host you in Poland !