S.L. 437.47 Art. 21Procedure for authorisation to place a veterinary medicinal product on the market.

(1) The Veterinary Services shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the procedure for granting a marketing authorisation for a veterinary medicinal product is completed within a maximum of two hundred and ten days days after the submission of a valid application.

Applications for marketing authorisations for the same veterinary medicinal product in two or more Member States, shall be submitted in accordance with regulations 31 to 43.

(2) Where Malta notes that another marketing authorisation application for the same medicinal product is being examined in another Member State, Malta shall decline to assess the application and shall advise the applicant that regulations 31 to 43 apply.