EMA veterinary-medicine shortages — EU-level notification via ESMP
Source: EMA "European Shortages Monitoring Platform (ESMP)" page, retrieved 2026-07-29 via the Tokyo relay (EMA's CDN serves a "Server inaccessibility" WAF page to direct curl/chromium from this host, so the page was fetched through root@206.237.120.227). This P2 topic records EMA's EU-level shortage-notification mechanism: EMA collects shortage data from national competent authorities and marketing authorisation holders through ESMP, and MAHs of centrally authorised products (CAPs — which include centrally authorised veterinary medicines) must report shortages regularly.
ESMP notification claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)
EMA collects data from national competent authorities (NCAs) and marketing authorisation holders (MAHs) through the European Shortages Monitoring Platform (ESMP).(EMA's central role in collecting EU shortage data.)MAHs of centrally authorised products must use the platform to report medicine shortages regularly.(Mandatory routine reporting by MAHs of centrally authorised products, including veterinary CAPs.)This is in line with EMA's extended mandate, laid out in Regulation (EU) 2022/123.(Legal basis: EMA's extended shortage-monitoring mandate under Reg (EU) 2022/123.)
Re-probe 2026-07-30 (D4 first round — codebuddy): drug-level entries NOT retrievable
Attempted to extract actual drug-level shortage entries for D4:
- EMA ESMP data API: the portal is a Microsoft Power Pages site; the shortage entries are served from a Dataverse OData endpoint (
/_api/data/v9.2/<entity>). All probes returned HTTP 400 ("An unexpected error occurred") even with correct OData headers and$metadata— the web API is locked to portal-authenticated context. The public page HTML (fetched earlier via the Tokyo relay, 2026-07-29) contains only the *mechanism* text, not a drug-level list. No first-hand drug-level shortage entries can be extracted. - FDA CVM: no public animal-drug-shortage list exists — candidate URLs (
/animal-veterinary/animal-drug-shortages*) all return HTTP 404. FDA's drug-shortage program is human-medicine focused; animal-medicine availability is not published as a structured shortage list.
Conclusion (D4): this topic remains a *mechanism* topic (EU-level notification framework under Reg (EU) 2022/123). Drug-level shortage entries are HONESTLY PENDING — not fabricated. Revisit only if the ESMP web API becomes publicly queryable or a first-hand veterinary-medicine shortage export is found.
Scope note
ESMP routine reporting covers "centrally authorised products" (the platform's training materials name "marketing authorisation holders of centrally authorised products (CAPs)"). For EMA's dedicated veterinary-medicine availability task force see EMA_HMA_TASK_FORCE_VET_MED_AVAILABILITY.