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This website uses both kinds:
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This website enables these cookies by default until you manage your cookie preferences. None of the cookies store personal data.
This website also uses Europa Analytics to monitor the user behaviour and experience on this website.
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This website uses session cookies and persistent cookies. They are both first-party cookies.
This website:
Our essential persistent cookies expire after six months, while non-essential persistent cookies expire after thirteen months.
The table below provides information on the different kinds of cookies this website uses:
| Name and type | Service | Purpose | Storage period |
Consent needed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eu_cookie_consent - essential cookie | Cookie Consent Kit (Webtools) | Stores your cookie preferences, so the website will not ask you again | Removed when you close your browser - session cookie |
No |
| cck1 - essential cookie |
Cookie Consent Kit (Webtools) | Stores your preferences for first-party cookies, so the website will not ask you again | 6 months - persistent cookie |
No |
| cck3 - essential cookie |
Cookie Consent Kit (Webtools) | Stores your preferences for third-party cookies, so the services will not ask you again during a session | Removed when you close your browser - session cookie |
No |
| _pk_id.* - non-essential cookie |
Analytics (Europa Analytics / Piwik) |
Recognises website visitors, so that the website can monitor the number of visitors | 13 months - persistent cookie |
Yes |
| _pk_ses.* - non-essential cookie |
Analytics (Europa Analytics / Piwik) |
Identifies the web pages that an individual user views during one visit, so that the website can monitor how users move around the website | 30 minutes - session cookie |
Yes |
This website uses authentication cookies for authorised EMA and EC staff, and for contractors. We store these cookies using the EC’s authentication service (EU Login). They do not apply to external users.
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