Listening to the public's views on the safety of medicines.

The article focuses on the adoption of final rules of procedure for public hearings by committee Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) of the agency responsible for public and animal health through supervision of medicines European Medicines Agency (EMA). The rules of procedure explain the process and practical arrangements for the preparation, conduct and follow-up of public hearings. The article discusses the internal dry run exercise to test the process on July 2016.