Northern Ireland will be disconnected from the EMVS on 1st January 2025

As agreed in the Windsor Framework, Northern Ireland (UKNI) will be disconnected from the EMVS on 01 January 2025 and FMD will no longer be applied to medicines intended to be supplied in Northern Ireland.

Due to the UKNI disconnection, it will no longer be possible to upload data with the market “GB” listed as one of the designated markets. Hence, OBPs must update the PMD of their multi-market products by removing “GB” from the designated markets. If the OBP attempts to upload data to the market “GB” the EU Hub will respond with “#A16 - Data Validation error” followed by “#A22 - Market not found” and the request will fail.

EMVO has published a Q/A document addressing the issue.