Open invitations and notifications

Open invitations

HSE opens an invitation for companies to take over the role of participant for an active substance / product type combination in the GB Review Programme when:

  • the person, company or task force / consortium currently supporting the active substance (the participant) decides to withdraw their support
  • an active substance is redefined (where, during the evaluation, it becomes clear that the identity of the substance being evaluated does not entirely match the substance that was initially supported and therefore it may not be appropriate to apply the conclusions of such an evaluation to the substance as it was initially identified)
  • a person, company or task force / consortium makes a declaration of interest (to add an active substance / /product type combination to the GB Review Programme where certain criteria can be met), and that declaration of interest is declared compliant by HSE

See the current list of open invitations (PDF) - Portable Document Format.

If you want to support one of the active substances that is up for open invitation, you need to submit a notification to HSE by the deadline indicated in the table. Find out how to notify.

Notifications

After receiving your notification HSE will:

  • conduct a brief initial check of the information to confirm that it meets the requirements for the application type
  • issue an invoice to the notifier for the fee which must be paid within 30 days of the date of the invoice - failure to pay the requested fees will result in your notification being rejected
  • decide whether the notification is compliant (ie all of the required information has been submitted) - this will take approximately 30 days from the payment of the fee
  • inform you if your notification is not compliant and indicate what information is missing or incorrect
  • allow you a further 30 days to provide additional information or correct the notification as needed -this will be your only opportunity to correct the notification
  • decide whether the notification is compliant - this will take approximately 30 days from the date the amended notification is received

Compliant notification submitted

HSE will:

What you should do:

submit a full active substance dossier by the deadline indicated in the table - ie within 2 years of the date your notification is confirmed as compliant

See the current list of compliant notifications (PDF) - Portable Document Format.

Non-compliant notification submitted

HSE will:

What you should do:

  • inform your customers of the decision
  • take note of the non-approval decision and ensure you remove from the market any products containing the active substance in the relevant product type within the time-frame specified in the non-approval decision, or as indicated by HSE when you are informed the notification was not compliant

No notification submitted

HSE will:

What you should do:

  • inform your customers of the decision if you are a supplier of the active substance
  • take note of the non-approval decision and ensure you remove from the market any products containing the active substance in the relevant product type within the time-frame specified in the non-approval decision, or as indicated by HSE

See the current list of non-compliant notifications (PDF) - Portable Document Format.

Dossier submission

Dossier submitted

After receiving your dossier HSE will:

No dossier submitted

If a dossier is not submitted by the deadline indicated in the table, a non-approval decision will be published for the active substance / product type combination.

Any products containing the active substance in the relevant product type must be removed from the market within the time-frame specified in the non-approval decision.

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Updated 2021-07-19