The Official Journal of the Federation has published the “Agreement establishing actions for the simplification of procedures conducted before the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS in Spanish).

The requirement to submit certain documents physically for sanitary import permits of various types has been eliminated; however, the essential information contained within them must be completed in either physical or online formats, as appropriate for their processing.

• Various sanitary import permit procedures have been consolidated, and improvements for each have been specified.
• The requirements for the merged procedures, along with their homoclaves, have been updated.
• A reduction in resolution time has been implemented for some sanitary import permit procedures, as well as for modifications.

The agreement will take effect one hundred eighty business days following its publication in the Official Journal of the Federation. The physical formats will be made available on the official COFEPRIS website starting from the effective date of this Agreement.