Committed since 2002 to ensuring that Europe s food is safe. Karine Lheureux. Head of Application Desk, EFSA

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1 Committed since 2002 to ensuring that Europe s food is safe Application Desk Food Additives Karine Lheureux Head of Application Desk, EFSA Stakeholders workshop 21 September 2012, Brussels

2 REPRO Directorate and the APDESK Unit REPRO (Regulated PROducts) Directorate: FEED FIP GMO NUTRITION PESTICIDES APPLICATIONS HELPDESK APDESK unit: to provide internal coordination (back office) to support desk for applicants, Member States and other stakeholders (front office) to harmonise the workflow of applications To increase transparency and communication 2

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4 Applications Helpdesk Plan 2011 Staffing Front office and support desk Harmonise workflow on applications (reception to validation) Elaborate plan for Further develop front office and support desk Submission of applications: centralise initial administrative steps (reception, registration and verifying administrative completeness) Map and harmonise working practices and workflows (reception to publication) Launch a survey on «stakeholders needs» (2012) Launch a survey on «stakeholders satisfaction» (from 2014 on a yearly y basis) s) Development of electronic submission for applications

5 APDESK front office, support desk

6 APDESK front office, support desk Requests per scientific area (224) (Nov Aug 2012) Feed additives, 36 Food ingredients, 38 Nutrition, Pesticides, 30 Food contact materials, 28 Food processing, 28 Animal by-products 25 Decontamination Feed additives Food contact materials 20 Food ingredients Food processing 15 Other, 14 Genetic modification Nutrition Other 10 Pesticides Genetic modification, 7 5 Decontamination, 4 Animal by-products, 3 0 Total

7 APDESK front office, support desk Requests per affiliation - Nov. 11 Aug 12 (224) Affiliation Number of requests Industry 123 Other 33 Private citizen/consumer 14 Public authority 17 Science academia 21 NGO/Consumer Group 2 Not defined 14 TOTAL 224

8 APDESK front office, support desk Requests per Country (224) (Nov Aug 2012)

9 APDESK - front office, support desk How and where to submit an application: Understanding Applications Helpdesk: 9

10 APDESK - front office, support desk How and where to submit an application: Committed since 2002 to ensuring that Europe s food is safe 10

11 APDESK Workflow applications Harmonise workflows to gain efficiency Map and harmonise working practices on applications within EFSA Centralise initial administrative steps (reception, registration and verifying administrative completeness) For NEW food additive applications, 3 registrations EFSA-Q Iron(III) meso-tartrate EFSA-Q Q Polyvinyl l alcohol l polyethylene l glycol-graft-co-polymer EFSA-Q Gaseous chlorine dioxide Committed since 2002 to ensuring that Europe s food is safe

12 APDESK Workflow new applications food additives Applications arriving at EFSA Individual scientific units Risk assessment EFSA / APDESK VALID application Reception Acknowledgement Administrative issues Completeness check FIP FEED GMO NUTRITION PESTICIDES Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit BIOHAZ Unit

13 APDESK Workflow new applications food additives Applicant Dossier EUROPEAN COMMISSION Mandate + Dossier EFSA Perform suitability check (30 WDS)

14 Overall workflow and timeline EFSA Applicant EC Reception EFSA 30 WDS Suitable Not suitable Validity 9 MONTHS Risk Assessment Adoption by the Panel 15 WDS Committed since 2002 to ensuring that Europe s food is safe Publication 14

15 APDESK : interactions with stakeholders / surveys WHAT WHEN APDESK initiatives Identify and map the stakeholders needs 2012 Survey on stakeholders needs Implement 2013 Implementation of some services Monitor stakeholders satisfaction 2014 Survey 2015 on stakeholders Survey on 2016 satisfaction stakeholders Survey 2017 on satisfaction stakeholders Survey on satisfaction stakeholders satisfaction

16 APDESK Plan Continued support to submission of applications: Provide pre-submission support to applicants Answer requests through the web form Update information available in the website Available to answer to request via phone - Provide dedicated support to SMEs and/or new applicants: Develop an APDESK SME office Develop a specific area in EFSA APDESK webspace - Support scientific units in the organisation of technical workshops and trainings (on-going) - Development of E-submission for applications: Feasibility study Electronic submissions Project

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