The Agency has developed a Comment Response Tool (CRT) that is used to automate the consultation process for Notices of Proposed Amendments (NPA) and Comment-Response Documents (CRD). The CRT allows users to review NPAs and place their comments, and later on to view the CRDs and add their reactions before the publication of the final Decision or Opinion.

All comments and reactions should be placed using the CRT. In case the use of CRT is prevented by technical problems these should be reported to the webmaster and comments sent by email instead.

Registration is required to place comments. All registered users have the possibility to receive notifications whenever a new NPA or CRD is published.

Once a comment is saved it is allocated a unique number which confirms the comment was successfully saved. This number will also be used in the CRD. While the consultation is open the users can still modify their comments. A detailed User Guide is provided to help new users become familiar with CRT.

Technical details

The CRT is a web-based application. It has been successfully tested and is supported on Internet Explorer 6+ (SP2 must be installed), Firefox 2.x & 3.x.
It has been successfully tested on Opera 9.x, Safari 3.x and Google Chrome, but those browsers cannot be considered as supported.
CRT does work without know issues with MS Office 2003 up to SP 3, but later versions cannot be guaranteed, nor any other office tools.
Documents in the CRT will be provided in two formats; Acrobat (.pdf) and FlashPaper (.swf). The required programs, Adobe Reader and Adobe FlashPlayer, are available for free download, see links below.