The third international meeting of world pharmacopoeias was held in London, United Kingdom, from 10 to 11 April 2014. It was co-hosted by the Medicines and Health care products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the British Pharmacopoeia Commission and WHO.
During this meeting the third draft of the document on Good Pharmacopoeial Practices (GPhP) was discussed in detail, with a review of more than 300 comments received from the world pharmacopoeias. The participants also discussed comments received during the public consultation on the concept paper phase. In view of the length of the GPhP text, it was decided to create a technical annex containing the technical details. A new drafting group (consisting of the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia, European Pharmacopoeia, Indian Pharmacopoeia, Japanese Pharmacopoeia, United States Pharmacopeia and the WHO Secretariat facilitating the process and representing The International Pharmacopoeia) was formed to further develop the technical annex.
Following the third meeting of world pharmacopoeias the GPhP text was reworked into a fourth draft which was circulated by the WHO Secretariat to all pharmacopoeias for comments. A preliminary version of the technical annex was drafted on the basis of parts of the previous GPhP text.