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European Medicines Agency (EMA) serves a market of over 500 million people living in the EEA. The terminology in Europe can be a bit confusing as the EU/EEA is not the European equivalent of the United States. The European Union/EEA is composed of sovereign nations, which still retain many powers and functions. They are linked by a variety of treaties. Some governmental functions are devolved in full or in part to the “central” authority (in Brussels and Strasbourg) and others are retained by the national governments. Not all countries devolve the same functions to the central authority. Thus, the EU/EEA’s handling of drugs and drug safety is similar to but, in many ways, quite different from that of the FDA or other single, national health agencies.