on the website of the applications help desk we are publishing updated
guidance documents to reflect the new provisions of the transparency regulation
you will find them in the regulations and guidance section of each regulated product area
in the landing page you can find
two guidance that are applicable to all the regulated products area
the fsys catalogue of services that can be provided during the life cycle
of applications for regulated product and the administrative guidance for the
processing of applications for regulated products that has been updated in 2021
these documents reflect the new services and procedures
introduced with the new transparency regulation
that applies as of the 27th of march 2021.
You can access the pdf version on this page
or navigate to the EFSA journal on Wiley.
The two guidance are interlinked via supporting publication articles
on the application desk website you will find a list for food sector
on each food sector area you will find a general description of the area
including some useful shortcuts below and on the right side
as for example the EFSA toolkit webpage that presents all EFSA resources of interest for applicants
the page is presenting the regulatory framework, the administrative guidance
the scientific guidance, and other guidance applicable to the sector.
For each subsectors is plastic materials
recycling process, and active and intelligent materials.
you can access each subsector also from the menu on the right
If we take the example of active and intelligent materials and articles,
the page is organized with guidance applicable for applications submitted until the 26th of March 2021
and guidance applicable for applications submitted as of the 27th of March 2021.
For administrative guidance, this guidance will remain applicable
for all applications submitted until the 26th of March 2021.
After that date, you will need to use the new guidance that has been prepared,
and that presents the procedure as requested by the transparency regulation implementation.
This is the administrative guidance for the preparation of applications on substances
to be used in active and intelligent materials and articles intended to come into contact with food such as the example shown here.
As usual, you can access the pdf version as well as find the link to the EFSA journal.
Under the tab supporting information, you can find all the additional information linked to the document.
In this case all the appendix is linked to this administrative guidance.
If you download the pdf file you can find the supporting information on the last page of the of the document
As already shown before, the scientific guidance applicable for applications
submitted until the 26th of March 2021 is available under this heading here
Some of the guidance may have included both administrative and scientific information
and this is the case for this guidance.
Recently, in some of the food sectors we have separated the administrative
and the scientific guidance as you have seen before.
For applications submitted as of 27th of March 2021
the scientific part of this guidance is still applicable until further notice
and we have therefore removed the administrative part which is no longer applicable
You can see on the opening page that you are consulting the updated version
looking at the dates. You can find an explanation on this page
As for the other guidance you can find all other guidance applicable to a specific area under this heading