Send a question to the European Medicines Agency

Use this form to send a request for information from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or to make a formal request for access to EMA documents that are not already published on this website.

For technical support with EMA's IT systems (e.g. Eudravigilance, IRIS, EudraCT), please see Ask for assistance with an EMA IT system.

Read our Frequently asked questions before sending EMA a question. These provide answers to questions sent regularly to the Agency by its stakeholders, such as:

• What is the Agency responsible for?
• Are all medicines in the European Union approved via the Agency?
• How are herbal medicines evaluated?
• What are the responsibilities of the Agency in the assessment of certain categories of medical devices?
• Can the Agency help to fund my work?
• My medicine has been evaluated by the Agency but is not available in my country. Why not?

COVID-19

Please check our content on COVID-19 before sending a question about COVID-19 vaccines:

• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
• COVID-19 medicines
• COVID-19 vaccines: key facts
• Safety of COVID-19 vaccines

Requesting documents

EMA is striving to process all access-to-documents requests as soon as possible. However, the volume of requests may not allow for all the requests to be processed immediately.

Therefore, before requesting a document:

• check if the document is available on our website;
• see EMA's policy on Access to documents, which includes information on how to submit a request.

Currently EMA processes requests in chronological order, based on time of receipt. An access-to-documents coordinator will inform you when your procedure starts. 

To ensure efficient management of requests, EMA recommends avoiding voluminous requests. Ideally one request should not exceed 2 documents.

You can, however, submit as many requests as you need and in the order in which you would like them to be dealt with. 

Further information is available in our guidance document below, see questions 17 and 18:  

Guide on access to unpublished documents

Reference Number: EMA/304162/2014 Rev.8

 

The current arrangements are in line with EMA's policy on access to documents. The policy states that EMA will apply the principle of proportionality. This is to not jeopardise core business tasks and performance due to workload related to activities within Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.

EMA collects information you provide concerning your location for the sole and exclusive purpose of processing requests for access to documents and the application of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. For more information, see Access to documents. 

For information on how EMA uses your details, see the:

European Medicines Agency’s privacy statement concerning requests for information or access to documents via 'Send a question' form or phone call

Reference Number: EMA/415481/2019 Rev. 2 Summary:

European Medicines Agency’s Privacy Statement concerning requests for information or access to documents

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• Guide on access to unpublished documents

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