EudraGMDP Pharma Registry — EU pharma licences & inspection certificates as clean data

Download the official European register of pharmaceutical licences and inspections (EMA EudraGMDP) as a clean table: who is allowed to make, import, store and distribute medicines in Europe, and which sites passed or failed their inspections.

No pharma background needed — this page explains everything in plain words.

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New to pharma regulation? The 60-second version

In Europe, nobody can make or move medicines without permission from a national regulator (e.g. Spain's AEMPS, Germany's regional authorities). Regulators also inspect factories and warehouses and publish the result. All of this goes into one EU database run by the European Medicines Agency: EudraGMDP.

Think of it as the official business register of the medicines supply chain:

Active ingredient  ──►  Factory  ──►  Warehouse / wholesaler  ──►  Pharmacy / hospital
  supplier              (makes the     (stores and distributes)
                         medicine)
  API registration      MIA licence     WDA licence
                        + GMP cert.     + GDP cert.

You'll see...	It means...	Everyday analogy
WDA	Licence to be a wholesale distributor of medicines	A licence to run a logistics warehouse
MIA	Licence to manufacture or import medicines	A factory's operating licence
GMP certificate	A factory passed its Good Manufacturing Practice inspection	A passed MOT/ITV, for a factory
GDP certificate	A warehouse/distributor passed its Good Distribution Practice inspection (storage, temperature, traceability)	A passed MOT/ITV, for a warehouse
Non-compliance	The inspection failed seriously — often means suspension or product recalls	A failed MOT, made public
API registration	Registration to make, import or distribute active ingredients (the raw chemical)	A raw-material supplier register
Site	One physical location (a plant, a warehouse). A company can have many	A branch / building
ORG-… / LOC-…	The EMA's official ID for a company (ORG) and for a site (LOC)	Company tax ID / building reference
NCA	The national authority that issued the document	The issuing office

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Which dataset do I need?

Pick one or more in "What do you want to download?".

If you want...	Choose	Records (whole EEA)	Typical run time
A list of medicine distributors and logistics warehouses (sales prospects, logistics partners)	Wholesale distributors (WDA)	~11,000	~1.5 min
A list of factories and importers	Manufacturers & importers (MIA)	~7,400	~1 min
To check whether factories passed inspection, or find failed ones	Factory inspection certificates (GMP)	~14,000 (EEA) + non-EEA sites (India, China, US...)	~2.5–8 min
To check whether distributors/warehouses passed inspection	Warehouse inspection certificates (GDP)	~500 per mid-size country	~3.5 min per country
Active-ingredient makers, importers and traders	Active ingredient suppliers (beta)	~4,800 rows (EEA)	~2.5 min per country

Tip: for "which distributors handle cold-chain products, vaccines or blood products?", choose Wholesale distributors and switch on Include full licence details.

Prefer one row per building/site with all its licences grouped together? Use our sister actor EU Pharma Sites Graph.

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How to run it (3 steps)

1. What do you want to download? → e.g. Wholesale distributors.
2. Countries → e.g. Spain, or All EEA countries.
3. Click Start. Download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON from the Output tab.

Optional:

• Include full licence details — adds authority, inspection dates, authorised activities and special product types. Slower (2–3 s per document).
• Filters — company name, failed inspections on/off, certificate dates.
• Recurring runs → Return only changes — schedule it weekly and get only new or updated documents (great for alerts).

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What you get: field-by-field guide

Every dataset uses the same columns, so you can mix them in one spreadsheet. Columns that don't apply to a dataset are empty.

Always filled

Column	Plain meaning	Example
module	Which dataset the row comes from	WDA
docId	Unique ID of the document in EudraGMDP — use it to deduplicate	29276
documentType	Exact document type (see table below)	WDA, GMPC, GMPNC, GDPWDA...
documentNumber	Licence / certificate number given by the authority	ED-023-CL
holder.name	Company that holds the licence	Leon Research S.L.
holder.omsOrganisationId	Official company ID (ORG-…) — best key to group a company's sites	ORG-100027271
site.name, site.street, site.city, site.postcode, site.country, site.countryCode	Where the site is	Leon, 24009, ES
site.omsLocationId	Official site ID (LOC-…) — best key to join with other data	LOC-100054103
dates.authorisation / dates.issue	When the licence was granted / certificate issued	2026-10-07
dates.inspectionEnd	Date of the last inspection (certificates)	2023-05-25
dates.lastUpdated	Last time the authority changed the record	2026-10-09T14:01:03
permalink	Link to the official page on the EMA website
_flags	Data-quality warnings (see below)	["non_compliance"]

documentType decoded

Value	Meaning
WDA	Wholesale distribution licence
MIA	Manufacturing / import licence
GMPC	Factory passed inspection
GMPNC	Factory failed inspection (non-compliance)
GDPWDA	Wholesaler warehouse passed inspection
GDPAPI	Active-ingredient distributor passed inspection
GDPNCWDA / GDPNCAPI	Distributor failed inspection
API-REG	Active ingredient registration

Filled only with "Include full licence details"

Column	Plain meaning
issuingAuthority	Authority that signed the document (e.g. Junta de Castilla y León)
legalBasis	Laws the licence is granted under
scope.productTypes	Human and/or veterinary medicines
scope.distributionOperations	What a distributor may do: procurement (buy), holding (store), supply (sell), export, other
scope.specialRequirementProducts	Products needing special handling: cold chain, immunologicals/vaccines, blood products, narcotics, radiopharmaceuticals
scope.manufacturingOperations	What a factory may make/test (sterile, tablets, packaging, quality control...)
scope.activeSubstances	Active ingredients a registered supplier handles
linkedAuthorisationNumber	For GDP certificates: the WDA licence they certify
remarks	Free-text remarks from the authority (e.g. validity date)
nonComplianceDetails	For failed inspections: what went wrong and what action was taken

_flags — warnings, never filters

We never delete rows; we label them so you decide:

Flag	Meaning
non_compliance	Failed inspection
gmp_older_than_3y / gdp_older_than_5y	Inspection older than the certificate's own validity guidance — check before relying on it
uk_legacy_pre2021	UK document frozen since Brexit (only Northern Ireland is still updated)
encoding_suspect	Garbled characters in the source (some Czech addresses); kept as published
address_unparsed	City or postcode couldn't be separated from the address
confidential_fields	The source hides names/signatures as "Confidential" (we never collect them)
detail_fetch_failed	Details couldn't be loaded; the basic row is still there

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Example (real record, with details)

{
  "module": "WDA",
  "docId": 29276,
  "documentType": "WDA",
  "documentNumber": "ED-023-CL",
  "holder": { "name": "Leon Research S.L.", "omsOrganisationId": "ORG-100027271" },
  "site": { "omsLocationId": "LOC-100054103", "city": "Leon", "postcode": "24009", "countryCode": "ES" },
  "issuingAuthority": "Junta De Castilla Y Leon",
  "dates": { "authorisation": "2026-10-07", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-09T14:01:03" },
  "scope": {
    "distributionOperations": [{ "code": "2.2", "label": "Holding" },
                               { "code": "2.5", "label": "Other", "text": "Contract warehouse" }],
    "specialRequirementProducts": [{ "code": "3.3", "label": "Other", "text": "Immunological medicines" }]
  },
  "permalink": "https://eudragmdp.ema.europa.eu/inspections/exc/sites/doc/WDA/29276"
}

Reading it: a licensed warehouse in León that stores medicines under contract, including vaccines/immunologicals (which need refrigeration).

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EudraGMDP Pharma Registry input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
modules	array of strings (required)	["WDA"]	Datasets to download: WDA, MIA, GMP, GDP, API_REG (beta).
countries	array of strings	["EEA"] (pre-filled: ["ES"])	EEA, ALL (GMP/GDP include non-EEA sites), THIRD (non-EEA only), or any 2-letter country code.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	Include full licence details (authority, inspection dates, activities, special products). About 2-3 seconds per document.
maxItems	integer (min 1)	1000 (pre-filled: 50)	Stop after this many records.
holderNameContains	string	empty	Company or site name contains (case-insensitive, partial match).
includeNonCompliance	boolean	true	Inspection certificates only: also return statements of non-compliance (flag non_compliance).
gdpOperation	string	ALL	Warehouse certificates (GDP) only: ALL, GDPWDA or GDPAPI.
dateFrom	date string	empty	Inspection certificates only: issued on or after this date (for example 2025-01-01).
dateTo	date string	empty	Inspection certificates only: issued on or before this date.
mode	string	full	full or delta. With delta each run remembers what it returned (key-value store eudragmdp-registry-state) and outputs only new or updated documents.
updatedSince	date string	empty	Return only documents updated on or after this date (for example 2026-09-01).
maxConcurrency	integer (1-2)	2	Parallel requests, capped at 2 out of respect for the public EMA website.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy off	Not needed: the source is public.

Pre-filled input (Spanish wholesale distributors, 50 records):

{"modules": ["WDA"], "countries": ["ES"], "maxItems": 50}

Example record without full details (real output)

With fetchDetails off, fields that come only from the detail page stay empty. In this real WDA record, status, holder.omsOrganisationId and site.omsLocationId are null and detailFetched is false:

{
  "module": "WDA",
  "docId": 7503,
  "documentType": "WDA",
  "documentNumber": "ED-017-CL",
  "status": null,
  "holder": {
    "name": "Cofares Noroeste Y Del Cantabrico S.A.",
    "omsOrganisationId": null
  },
  "site": {
    "name": "Cofares Noroeste Y Del Cantabrico S.A.",
    "omsLocationId": null,
    "ncaReferenceKey": null,
    "duns": null,
    "addressRaw": "Parcela 69b Calle Muela Quebrada, Po Ind La Hiniesta, Zamora, 49024, Spain",
    "street": "Parcela 69b Calle Muela Quebrada, Po Ind La Hiniesta",
    "city": "Zamora",
    "postcode": "49024",
    "county": null,
    "country": "Spain",
    "countryCode": "ES"
  },
  "issuingAuthority": null,
  "legalBasis": [],
  "dates": {
    "authorisation": "2026-07-21",
    "issue": null,
    "inspectionEnd": null,
    "lastUpdated": null
  },
  "linkedAuthorisationNumber": null,
  "miaNumber": null,
  "scope": null,
  "remarks": null,
  "nonComplianceDetails": null,
  "permalink": "https://eudragmdp.ema.europa.eu/inspections/exc/sites/doc/WDA/7503",
  "source": "EudraGMDP (EMA) — content provided by EEA National Competent Authorities",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-12T08:59:40Z",
  "detailFetched": false,
  "_flags": []
}

Ready-to-use examples

Copy any of these into the JSON input tab, or open the matching saved example from the Examples tab.

1. All licensed medicine wholesalers in Spain

{ "modules": ["WDA"], "countries": ["ES"], "maxItems": 1000 }

2. Cold-chain / vaccine distributors in Germany (details on, then filter scope.specialRequirementProducts)

{ "modules": ["WDA"], "countries": ["DE"], "fetchDetails": true, "maxItems": 500 }

3. Failed factory inspections worldwide (India, China, US...)

{ "modules": ["GMP"], "countries": ["THIRD"], "includeNonCompliance": true, "maxItems": 2000 }

4. Everything one company holds across Europe

{ "modules": ["WDA", "MIA", "GMP", "GDP"], "countries": ["EEA"], "holderNameContains": "Alliance Healthcare" }

5. Weekly alert: new or changed GMP certificates in France

{ "modules": ["GMP"], "countries": ["FR"], "mode": "delta" }

6. Active-ingredient (API) suppliers in Italy

{ "modules": ["API_REG"], "countries": ["IT"], "maxItems": 1000 }

Example values for the empty fields

Field	Try one of these
Company name contains	Alliance Healthcare, Phoenix, Sanacorp, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, Sandoz, Teva, Zentiva, Takeda, Fresenius Kabi, Octapharma, Linde, Air Liquide, Laboratorios Normon — or generic words like Logistics, Pharma, Apotheke
Countries	ES, DE, FR, IT, NL, PL; EEA (all of Europe); THIRD (non-EEA sites inspected by EU authorities, GMP/GDP only)
Issued from / until	2025-01-01 → 2025-12-31 (one year of certificates)
Only updated since	e.g. 2026-09-01 for last month's changes

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Use cases for EU pharma licence and GMP/GDP certificate data

• Sales prospecting — every licensed distributor or manufacturer in a country, with official IDs.
• Pharma logistics — find warehouses handling cold-chain, vaccine or blood products.
• Supplier checks — does a supplier hold a valid certificate? When was it last inspected?
• Risk alerts — weekly run with Return only changes to catch new failed inspections.
• Market mapping — count factories and warehouses by country or region.

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How much does it cost to scrape EudraGMDP pharma licences?

Pay per result, no subscription. Prices per 1,000 events (Apify plan discounts applied automatically):

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
Document returned (one row)	$4.00	$3.50	$3.00	$2.50
Full details loaded (only with Include full licence details)	$3.00	$2.50	$2.00	$1.50

Failed detail loads are never charged. Typical costs (Free plan):

Run	Rows	Cost
Wholesale distributors, Spain	~590	~$2.40
Factory certificates (GMP), Spain	~670	~$2.70
Wholesale distributors, whole EEA	~11,000	~$44
Weekly "only changes" alert, one country	usually < 50	< $0.20

Worked example (BRONZE tier): 100 wholesale-distributor rows with Include full licence details on: 100 x $0.0035 = $0.35 for the rows, plus 100 x $0.0025 = $0.25 for the details, plus the $0.00005 Actor start event (512 MB = one event). Total: about $0.60. Without details: about $0.35.

Set Max records to cap your spend on any run.

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EudraGMDP data source and limitations

• Source: EudraGMDP is run by the EMA; content is provided by national authorities, and the EMA accepts no liability for it. Questions about a document should go to the issuing authority.
• No personal data: names and signatures are hidden by the source and never collected.
• Suspended or withdrawn licences are not shown by the public website, so they are not included.
• Wholesale distributors without details don't include the official IDs (ORG/LOC) — the source doesn't list them; switch on details or use EU Pharma Sites Graph.
• Warehouse certificates (GDP) are served 10 per page by the source, so all of Europe takes a few hours.
• We query the EMA website politely (max 2 parallel requests).

FAQ

Is this data official? Yes — it comes from the EU database fed by national regulators; every row links to the official page.

How fresh is it? Live: each run reads the EMA website directly.

Can I get only what changed? Yes: Recurring runs → Return only changes.

What's the difference with EU Pharma Sites Graph? This actor gives one row per document; Sites Graph gives one row per building/site with all its documents grouped.

How much does a test run cost? The pre-filled input (Spanish WDA, 50 records) on the Free plan is 50 x $0.004 = $0.20, plus the $0.00005 Actor start event. Max records caps any run.

Why are status or the ORG/LOC IDs null? In the real wholesale-distributor record above (details off) status is null, and the source list does not include the official ORG/LOC IDs for wholesale distributors. Switch on fetchDetails, or use EU Pharma Sites Graph.

Do I need proxies? No. The source is public and the Actor queries it politely (max 2 parallel requests).

Related Rastriq actors

• EU Pharma Sites Graph - one row per pharma site with all its licences grouped.
• FDA Drug Establishments (DECRS) - drug establishments registered with the US FDA, with daily changes and removals.
• Europages Scraper - European B2B company directory.