EU Paediatric regulation - (EC) No 1901/2006 entered into force on 26 Jan 2007. Its purpose was to improve the health of children in the EU by facilitating the development of safe and effective medicines making sure they are ethically researched, authorised appropriately and by improving the availability of information on the use of medicines for children. Before this regulation, many medicines authorised in Europe were not studied adequately or authorised in children. One im