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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: [email protected]• cc to [email protected] , for court cases also to: [email protected] by July 15, 2011
VENUE
The Marriot Hotel downtown Warsaw
We will be happy to host you in Poland !