Supervision of the repositories system
Article 44
1. National competent authorities shall supervise the functioning of any repository physically located in their territory, in order to verify, if necessary by means of inspections, that the repository and the legal entity responsible for the establishment and management of the repository comply with the requirements of this Regulation. 2. A national competent authority may delegate any of its obligations under this Article to the competent authority of another Member State or to a third party, by means of a written agreement. 3. Where a repository not physically located in the territory of a Member State is used for the purpose of verifying the authenticity of medicinal products placed on the market in that Member State, the competent authority of that Member State may observe an inspection of the repository or perform an independent inspection, subject to the agreement of the Member State in which the repository is physically located. 4. A national competent authority shall communicate reports of supervision activities to the European Medicines Agency, which shall make them available to the other national competent authorities and the Commission. 5. National competent authorities may contribute to the management of any repository used to identify medicinal products and verify the authenticity of or decommission the unique identifiers of medicinal products placed on the market in the territory of their Member State. National competent authorities may participate to the management board of the legal entities managing those repositories to the extent of up to one third of the members of the board.