The Austrian Pharmacopoeia Commission was set up in 2007 by the then Federal Minister for Health, Family and Youth to revise the ÖAB. It consists of two committees: the ÖAB Commission and the ÖAB Expert Group.

The ÖAB Commission consists of pharmacists, doctors, lawyers and social partners.

Duties are:

• General strategic planning work (e.g. appointment of members of the ÖAB expert group, etc.)

• Formal resolution of the monographs prepared by the expert group

The ÖAB expert group, on the other hand, is made up exclusively of representatives of the pharmaceutical sciences.

Duties are:

• Development of the monographs

• Publication of monograph proposals with comment period

• Processing the comments received and handing over the finished monographs to the ÖAB Commission