Validating change of Competent Authority requests
The change of responsible Competent Authority (CA) can be necessary in some specific cases as:
An EU economic operator that moves inside the same country;
A non-EU manufacturer that changes of Authorised Representative or changes of responsible Competent Authority for their Authorised Representative;
A non-EU SPP producer that change the market distribution of their SPPs;
The new CA will be able to assess the request and accept or not to be the new CA.
Select Validate change requests from the Actor Management section:
You will find the pending requests at the bottom of the page:
Click on it to open the change request, the new window will display all the details concerning the change request:
At the bottom of the page, you will have the Assessment outcome section, here you will decide whether you approve the change of competent authority request or whether you reject it:
If you click on Approve, the button will turn green:
If you click on Not Approved, the button will turn red and a mandatory free-text box will appear asking you to justify your decision for not approving the request:
To finish, you can click on Complete assessment:
A success message will appear:
If the request was accepted, the new CA will get a notification of the changes made, as well as the concerned Economic Operator and the old CA.
If the request was not approved, the concerned Economic Operator will get a notification with the reason for rejection.