Planned interruptions

DateTimeAvailability
20/03/202408:00-09:00 CETWebsite intermittently unavailable

During these times, EMA’s corporate website may be intermittently unavailable or not work optimally. When the website is unavailable, a holding page displays EMA’s contact details, including the emergency number for reporting a potentially serious problem with a centrally authorised medicine and the number for notifying EMA of suspected quality defects or product recalls.

EMA advises users not to plan complex or critical work using EMA's corporate website at these times.

Release notes

06/03/2024
29/02/2024
  • Pause button added to the homepage carousel
  • Search improved by:
    • implementation of a spinning loader indicator to provide the user feedback that the browser is processing the request
    • ability to select more than one item from a search filter (search results will display results with either criteria, e.g. if A and B are selected from one single filter, results will include content that is either for A or B)
  • Search results display improved by:
    • default order set to newest first
    • implementation of a message with a link to the search tips page
    • bug fixed affecting the display of metadata related to content
  • Breadcrumbs on event pages updated to include a link to the events listing
  • Display of various special characters fixed
  • Deactivated glossary terms from document titles
  • Bugs fixed on the European experts page which displayed the top of the page when pagination or search within the list was used lower down on the page; search for names with special characters improved
31/01/2024
  • Fixed issue with missing URL redirections from the previous version of the website, in particular for medicine content and documents (excluding URLs of documents in languages other than English)
11/01/2024
  • Search results relevance improved, by increasing the amount of content on each web page indexed by sitewide search
  • Bug fixed in sitewide search (error message displayed when searching for documents with titles longer than 128 characters)
  • Searching and filtering enabled in sitewide search for:
    • medicines by type (biosimilar, generic, etc.), opinion status, maximum residue limits
    • referrals by therapeutic area
    • shortages by status
    • direct healthcare professional communications (DHPCs) by active substance, international non-proprietary name (INN) and common name
    • paediatric investigation plans (PIPs) by active substance, INN, common name and therapeutic area  
    • periodic safety update report single assessments (PSUSAs) by regulatory outcome and active substance/INN
  • Usability improved of controlled vocabulary filter for therapeutic area in the sitewide search, by listing terms in alphabetic order
  • Bug fixed that prevented users from seeing upcoming events and past events
  • Language identifiers for Icelandic (íslenska) and Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba) in document lists corrected
05/12/2023
  • New version of the website with increased security
  • All content migrated from previous version of the website
  • Refreshed look and feel, enhancing use of visual products
  • Simplified navigation via a 'breadcrumbs' feature showing users where they are on the website
  • Simplified medicines search via either medicine name or active substance
  • Revamped 'What's new page', enabling users to locate content via simple filters and new sorting options

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