Following a notification from the EMVO (European Medicines Verification Organization) regarding the upload into the system of several batches labeled as "TEST", all Marketing Authorization Holders, On-Boarding Partners, and Parallel Importers are reminded that, for any 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 activity related to data uploads for the Italian market, it is mandatory to exclusively use the 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐐𝐄 (𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲) 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐛. The IQE environment has been specifically designed to support testing phases in complete safety.

Running tests in the Production (PROD) environment carries a serious risk of compromising the integrity of the overall data within the Italian system.

All involved parties are hereby requested to ensure that all 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐐𝐄 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.