Last updated: 14 January 2026
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European Shortages Monitoring Platform (ESMP) update: Expansion in progress | ESMP webpage reorganisation | New ESMP factsheets and updated FAQs
As part of EMA’s ongoing commitment to enhance the European Shortages Monitoring Platform (ESMP) and support its users, the ESMP is expanding with new functionalities, and the development work is progressing. In addition, new and revised support materials are now available on the ESMP webpage, which has been reorganised with some content moved to two dedicated subpages.
ESMP expansion
The ESMP is expanding to include new tools and features that will better support stakeholders in preventing, managing, and mitigating medicine shortages:
- Voluntary solidarity mechanism workflow (for Member States): Implementation of a data submission and management workflow in the ESMP that allows Member States to flag critical national shortages of specific medicines, enabling other Member States to indicate available stock that could potentially be redistributed.
- Critical shortage reporting workflow (for Member States): This feature builds on the current reporting of critical shortages by NCAs to EMA and streamlines the submission and management of critical shortage notifications.
- Vulnerability assessment methodology testing (for the MSSG): In line with the upcoming pharmaceutical legislation reform, this functionality will support the MSSG in testing and automating a new methodology to identify vulnerabilities in the supply chains of medicines. It will allow step-by-step testing and provide initial large-scale analysis using defined indicators.
New ESMP webpage subpages
The ESMP webpage content has been revised and some content reorganised into two dedicated subpages:
- ESMP guidance, training materials and events page – hosting all user and implementation guidance, training materials and information on ESMP events.
- ESMP interoperability page – focused on information on the platform’s interoperability with national and pharmaceutical industry systems.
New and updated resources
To further support stakeholders in fulfilling their reporting obligations new concise factsheets and updated FAQs are available:
- ESMP Factsheets: four one-page summaries of MAHs and NCAs reporting obligations and processes in times of routine shortages, crises, or MSSG-led preparedness actions.
- ESMP FAQs: revised and expanded, with update details available in the revision history table.
Source: eSubmission
Overview of timetables 2026 CMDh 60-day procedures for MRP/DCP applications
You can view the overview of timetables here.
Source: HMA
Updated PLM Portal eAF Release notes now available
An updated version of the PLM Portal eAF Release notes reflecting bug fixes and updates to web eAF made in the version 1.2.1.3 released to production on 06 January 2026 is now available on the eSubmission PLM Portal eAF web page.
Source: eSubmission