If the rapporteur decides an application meets European health andsafety requirements, it is sent to the European Commission and the other 14 member states.
More than 13, 000 patients have been enrolled in one study to test the drug's safetyand efficacy for an application with the Food and Drug Administration.
The revised application included minimal change to the landscape, reduced noise impact, and proposals to improve road safetyand public transport connections, he added.
It is no wonder that BP are acting out this exercise in a public way as US lawmakers threatened to block any application BP would make to be party to drilling and exploration activity involving new US offshore leases because of its past safety record.