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Regulated Product Submission Release 2 (RPS R2) Business Scenario Development

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In its primary form, this page consolidates the information drafted and discussed during the business scenario development sessions at the July 24, 2008, Requirements Kick-off meeting in Silver Spring, Maryland. The business scenarios have three categories, corresponsing to the three scoping statements:

PARTICIPANT INSTRUCTIONS

Please use this page to develop and discuss Business Scenarios for Regulated Product Submission. To edit any individual scenario, click on the edit hyperlink for the section. If you wish to discuss any scenario, click on the edit hyperlink for the subsection following the scenario. When you have finished your editing, click on the Save page button.

Contents

Two-way Communication

Submission Activities

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description Request for Submission Number (with the idea that this may be done in an automated pre-submission manner).
Additional Information Review Guidance Documents from each Authority (Note: May be difficult for EU)
Issues and Questions
  • Should Post-market Commitment be included in Regulatory Actions?
  • What is the definitions of correspondence and message?
  • What differentiates a submission unit from correspondence? Will any correspondence get part of the application? It is usually considered part of the application documentation.
  • Can this business scenario also capture the administrative activities (i.e., technical issues, validations, etc.)?

Discussion

Meeting Requests and Responses

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Request Meeting (e.g., End of Phase I Meeting, Phase II Meeting, Meeting during review, Pre-Submission Meeting,
  • Meeting request may come from either regulated industry or regulatory authority
  • Meeting request response (from requested party)
  • Related pre-meeting materials should be sent from one party to another
  • Resulting meeting minutes, materials, action items should be sent
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions
  • Are there specific metadata requirements?
  • Will the activities (request meeting etc.) fall into the scope of correspondence? Would it be valuable to categorize minutes as a submission unit because it might be relevant for future regulator decisions or it may define some aspects of the upcoming study?

Discussion

Follow-up/Post-market

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Regulatory Authority asks Regulated Industry about technical issues based on field experience
  • Currently this occurs via e-mail, fax or phone correspondence
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions
  • Does this only occur on a postmarket basis due to some field activity?
  • Is this based on a field inspection (compliance) that may result in questions to the regulated industry based on information that was not required to be submitted to the regulatory authority?

Discussion

Pre-submission Activities

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Communications between regulators to plan details of review
  • Communications between sponsor and regulators
  • May take the form of one of the following:
– Face-to-face meetings
– E-mail
– Phone
– FDA Meeting Minutes
  • Meetings for a contractor to discuss facility requirements (sponsor requested meeting)
  • Giving overall advice on planned submission or development activities
  • Giving “scientific advice” (relates to one or multiple applications)
  • Communications may not ever connect to a submission
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions The group indicated that "pre-submission" requires definition.

Discussion

Informal Interactions

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Questions not associated with a submission
  • Questions associated with a submission
Additional Information Refer to FDA/CDRH Guidance for Interactive Review
Issues and Questions
  • How are these conversations recorded today? Are all communications captured in a letter or e-mail? Do they all become part of the official record?
  • To formalize the documentation of phone calls may be very time consuming and therefore realistically not performed.
  • E-mail communication in a highly structured form will require, for example, a portal providing all the relevant metadata. Again, it will not be feasible to rekey all metadata again and again manually even if you use the reply function. Maybe a request or an option should be foreseen.
  • If this becomes automated - How does the “system” weed out the “out of office” type of e-mails?
  • This scenario needs examples of questions that may be considered “informal”

Discussion

Waiver Requests

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Sponsor sends Waiver Request related to a submission
  • Sponsor sends Waiver Request not related to a submission
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions This scenario needs examples of waivers

Discussion

Notification of Decision

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Regulator(s) notify sponsor(s) and/or other Agencies of decision regarding the submission (and/or reviewable unit)
  • Example of a multilayered – combination product (includes indication, formulation, clinical trial, manufacturing change, raw materials)
  • Conditions/Status Options
– Yes with No Conditions
– Yes with Conditions that are open ended (fixed duration)
– Yes with Conditions that are open ended (lifecycle commitment)
– Yes with Conditions that are closed
– No with Justification
– No (conditional)
– Reimbursement
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions Are there any other status options?

Discussion

Recalls

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description Health Authority contacts sponsor of required recall
Additional Information
  • Example: FDA/CFSAN > Court > FDA > Sponsor
  • Example: Health Authority > Multiple Sponsors for a mass recall for products for excipients
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Withdraw from Market after Approval

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • The Regulatory Authority contacts sponsor and/or other regulatory authorities requesting withdraw from market for application/product(s)
  • The Sponsor contacts the regulatory authority of withdraw from market for application/product(s)
Additional Information
  • More common for the sponsor to withdraw application
  • If a Master File has been reference once, the application cannot be withdrawn.
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Public Health Risk Notification

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • The Regulatory Authority may contact other Regulatory Authority regarding regulatory actions for public health risk
Additional Information
  • Within a BoH
  • BoH to BoH (is this out of scope?)
  • BoH to notify Sponsor
Issues and Questions DEFINE ACRONYM: Does BoH mean Board of Health?

Discussion

Labeling Negotiations: Request for Additional Information

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Once the sponsor submits labeling the Regulatory Authority may request/suggest changes
  • Negotiations may be conducted by e-mail or phone
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions
  • What is captured by the Regulatory Authority about the negotiations?
  • Are questions asked?
– Is there a change to the documentation that results from the questions asked?
– Is there a mechanism to ask follow up questions and/or clarification to the Regulatory Authority’s questions/suggestions/change requests?

Discussion

Interagency Negotiations

Actors
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • One Agency (Agency Division) asks another Agency a question or shares comments; the receiving Agency can send answers
  • Informal assessment process (at some agencies); when it impacts the decision it is formal)
  • Formal communication is traced as condition/commitments. Optional question or answer can refer to documentation, application or submission.
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions Can the two agencies exchange questions once the negotiation is initiated?

Discussion

Questions about where to find content (“I can’t find it”)

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Information was included in the submission unit, but the reviewer is not able to find the information
  • Sponsor responds (e.g., identification of the location with previously submitted documents, I have it and will send it, don’t have it and will create it)
Additional Information This communication is accepted by e-mail, phone, fax, or formal letter.
Issues and Questions Is this an informal interaction? Once the information was not located within previously submitted documentation, is that when it becomes formal?

Discussion

Questions from Sponsor to Agency and Resulting Response

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • The sponsor contacts the Regulatory Authority regarding questions on an application. For example, mid-study the sponsor needs advice from the Regulatory Authority on the study.
– Feedback on study (data sets from safety signaling)
– Whether to continue with the study
– To ask if additional (3rd year) data is needed
  • The questions can be to clarify content, placement, technical, standards
  • The Regulatory Authority will provide a response
Additional Information This communication is accepted by e-mail, phone, or formal letter
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Questions from Regulatory Authority and Sponsor Response

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • Agency creates questions to send the sponsor
  • Sponsor receives a number (multiple) of questions
  • Questions may or may not have timelines (due dates)
  • Sponsor may respond to one or many or all of the questions at once or at different times
  • Agency needs to track when all of th questions have been answered
  • Some negotiations may happen (i.e., when there are questions about questions that require clarification)
  • Clarifications can be received by email or phone
  • Agency may approve the response to question 1 but need additional information after receiving the response to question 2
  • The status will remain open for all responses that the Agency finds inadequate
  • Multiple responses may come in for one question over time. For example, the response may require input from the applicant (some amendments or clarifications), from an active substance master file holder (amendments on the closed parts) and a Member State (composition of the referenced product).
  • The applicant may need to send the response to multiple Member States.
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Identify Administrative Actions

Actors
  • Regulatory Authority
Description
  • The Regulatory Authority identifies that the submission unit is incorrectly submitted (e.g., a technical issue or incorrect classification of material)
  • Example, a submission is received as an amendment, but it the submission meets the criteria for a supplement. The regulatory authority will make a change in the classification and inform the sponsor of the change.
Additional Information
Issues and Questions Are there any other examples?

Discussion

Referencing

Reference Document within Submission Unit

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description
  • A reference from a location (document, TOC) to another piece of information within the same submission unit
  • For example, reference a clinical study from a clinical summary
Additional Information

“Reference” is one of the following:

  • Non-retrievable, information only reference
  • Retrievable (electronically, on demand), maintenance required
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Referencing Document between Submissions

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description
  • Referencing to/from documents within a submission (original to amendment)
  • Examples include referencing the CMC information from an original submission in an amendment where the sponsor is responding to a deficiency regarding this information
Additional Information Link this to Request for Additional Information – Questions from Regulatory Authority and Response from Sponsor
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Referencing outside Submission Unit, but within Application

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description
  • Link from a source object (document, toc) to a target object in a different submission unit, but within the same application
  • Example: Link from a summary document in a sNDA to a CMC document submitted in an original NDA for the same compound.
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions How is this different than what is covered under RPS R1?

Discussion

Reference Information in Another Application

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description
  • Provides the ability to reference information from a separate application that is owned by the sponsor.
  • Example is referencing an IND from a NDA
  • This allow referencing from a component of Application A to another Component in Application B.
Additional Information The context which the documentation is being used in each application may need to be specified. The Sponsor may want to use the same content across applications, but in a different context in each.
Issues and Questions
  • Need an example of this scenario. Would it be a reference to study data that was provided in a previous submission (IND) that has not changed and should be referenced in a subsequent submission (NDA)?
  • How is this different from what is covered under RPS R1?

Discussion

Referencing Information owned by an External Party

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Master File Holder
Description
  • Sponsor wants to refer to information outside of their own application, which is owned by an external party.
  • Sponsor A would get permission from Sponsor B (Holder of Reference Master File)
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions

Is the Right of Reference Request for this scenario required? What if a letter of authorization is withdrawn?

Discussion

Updating Information that Links to Other Information

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
  • Master File Holder
Description Best Pharma has submitted an application with document that has reference to other documents within the application and to different application(s). This submission has been received by the Agency and they have validated the references. Subsequent to the original submission, Best Pharma has new CMC information that needs to be updated. A maintenance submission is submitted with an updated document, which has updated reference from what was submitted in the original submission.
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Update a Referenced Document in a Previous Submission

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
  • Regulatory Authorities
Description
  • The Table of contents of Submission A references two documents A21 and A54. Document A21 references document A54.
  • In subsequent Submission B, its table of contents references a document in its submission, Document A6, which should replace the document A54 in Submission A. It does this by referencing Document A54 in Submission A and indicating Document A6 should replace it. Reference in Document A21 needs to be changed to reference Document B6.
  • Example, Investigator brochure submitted last year needs to be updated with a newly submitted IB. The IB is referenced by the protocol.
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Indirect Referencing

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description Reference information source that in turn references a secondary source.

Example, sNDA (new indication) references an original NDA, which in turn references an IND

Additional Information -
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Reference Paper Information from Electronic Source

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description An electronic source submission references information that does not exist in any electronic reference“able” format. The referenced information only exists in paper.

Example: New indication sNDA reference older paper NDA for non-clinical safety information.

Additional Information -
Issues and Questions
  • Should this information be provided electronically? Even if it exist in paper at the Regulatory Authority? How would that reference be made? By submission number? TOC item? Volume number? Can this be standardized?
  • How can one ensure that the documentation will persist from a records retention perspective if it is not available electronically with the new record? The Original and sNDA may be on a different retention schedule if a long period of time has elapsed.

Discussion

Reference External Electronic Source/Non-Retrievable

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description This allows the sponsor to include a link outside or external to the application, but the information not displayed within the current review tool. This could require the requestor to access another system to review the data or content in relation to the external link.
Additional Information
  • In case of pharmacovigilance activities, it might be useful to have links available between multiple PSURs from different companies regarding the same active substance. In case of work, sharing one submission may be related to several marketed products.
Issues and Questions This needs an example. What type of information are we referencing? Is it an external repository? Is this for the example of annotated ECG?

Discussion

Reference Electronic Source/Retrievable

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description Generic Pharma submits and ANDAto a Regulatory Agency. As part of the submission, Generic Pharma needs to reference the original inventor labeling information posted on the Agency’s website. Generic Pharma references the original labeling information by establishing a retrievable link to the Agency’s website.
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions What if the website is updated after the submission and reference to the information? How do you handle references that have been changed after the submission reference? Nested references may lead to outdated or replaced information.

Discussion

Referencing Approval Information

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description Information is submitted in a modular format and receives approvable status. Several modules and letters are exchanged. The final application would consist of links to the series of approvable letters.
Additional Information -
Issues and Questions Could this also include references to approvals external to the applicant to note previously approved products that are similar (i.e., substantially equivalent).

Discussion

Provide Access/Permission to a Submission

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description
  • Investigator IND Information requires the investigator to issue an allowance to do their own IND so they can conduct their study, but this information must be referenced during annual reports or safety reporting.
  • To access submitted information (Investigator IND information), the sponsor asks for permission of the investigator to access the IND and inform the Agency of the Access/Permission
Additional Information Permission should include: Sponsor ID, investigator ID, access to what (and where is it, what agency, center), access level (granularity of reference or permission to what is in the file), date permission was given and/or withdrawn.
Issues and Questions Does this apply outside the U.S.?

Discussion

Permit Use of Master File/Master Access

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description
  • DMF or Master File (global). For instance, manufacturing may be proprietary to, manufacturing company. For Devices, would be “indicator”
  • Drug/Device patterns - maybe you have a product and use different inhalers or different devices, and you don't have the device information, you don't need to build the inhaler, you just need to put your product in it
  • Genetics/Innovator- there is not a physical connection between the generic application and the innovator, but there would be some kind of a connection. No "permission"
  • Request Permission
  • Permission Given
Additional Information
  • Permission including the following information: sponsor ID, DMF ID, access to what (and where it is, what agency, what center), access level (granularity of reference OR permissions to what in the file), date permission given or withdrawn
  • Letter of authorization form DMF holder – can a LOA be used for multiple products if the DMF holder has not given explicit reference to an application only to the Applicant? How is that reference to be used?
Issues and Questions For EU, how much referring do they do between EMEA and others...?

Also, for the EU, is it an open vs. closed DMF? This would affect access level.

Discussion

Comparison Information

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description
  • Comparator information - head-to-head drug information - is usually investigational, when you are comparing yourself to another drug. You would have to gel the other product, or reference it if it is not already on the market
  • One company requests Permission
  • Another company gives Permission
Additional Information
  • Permission including the following information: sponsor ID, product ID, access to what (and where it is, what agency, what center), access level (granularity of reference OR permissions to what in the file), date permission given or withdrawn
  • Note: if it is an approved drug, you would just go and buy it off the shelf, would not need to gel permission.
  • Related to predicate products (e.g., 510K submission)
Issues and Questions -

Discussion

Information about the Submission

Information about the Submission

Actors
  • Regulated Industry (e.g., Sponsor, Applicant, “Submitting Entity”)
Description

This refers to providing basic administrative information about the message including, but not limited to:

  • Unique identifier (associates all submissions for a specific application)
  • Application information (includes Product type)
  • Submission information
  • Sponsor information
  • Submitter information
  • Country
  • Language
  • Application/submission number (already in RPS1)
Additional Information
  • Forms are changed and/or duplicate data is provided in forms
  • Remove data redundancy in information processing
  • Need to have the ability to remove a product from a submission in the case of devices.

Assess the common forms across the regulatory authorities.

Issues and Questions
  • How is the change in identifying information during the submission lifecycle processed?
  • Does this topic include the request or option to provide available meta data from the Authority when completing forms via portal or in some different technical solution?
  • There are intentions of European Agencies to provide online accessible data to populate forms, which might be uploaded directly or downloaded and be added to the submission burned on DVD/CD. Will that be supported by RPS R2.
  • How do you handle changes to applicant (ownership) in the middle of a submission review? Changes to product names? …etc.

Discussion