The National Institute for Food and Drug Surveillance (INVIMA in Spanish) announced the activation of a new feature on its InvimÁgil platform, allowing the assignment or transfer of ownership of marketing authorizations for the food and non-alcoholic beverage sector.

This tool represents a significant advancement in the modernization of the institute’s services, offering a formal, traceable, and efficient mechanism for a company holding a registration, permit, or notification to fully and definitively transfer the marketing authorization to another national company duly registered on the platform, with the rights and obligations this entails in accordance with current health regulations.

Main characteristics of the process:

• The procedure is initiated exclusively by the current holder.
• The system verifies in real-time that there are no appeals, active procedures, or pending administrative actions that would hinder the process.
• Once the application is submitted, the new holder receives an automatic notification and has a period of five (5) business days to accept or reject the transfer.
• At the end of the process, the administrative act with a digital signature is automatically generated, also transferring all the documentary history and administrative actions associated with the product.