You must cancel your marketing authorisation (MA), parallel import product licence and/or traditional herbal remedy registration, before a product can be removed from the market.

If your application for these types of licences is pending and you no longer wish to proceed, you need to withdraw it.

Cancellations

To cancel a marketing authorisation for a medicine or a traditional herbal remedy so it can be removed from the market, you need to complete the Cancellation of a Marketing Authorisation form.

Or if you need to cancel a parallel import product licence, complete the Cancellation of a Parallel Import Licence (PLPI) form.

Please ensure that you limit bulk cancellations to a maximum of 10 product licenses showing per application form.

Submit your forms

Submit the relevant forms above to MHRA via the MHRA portal if you’re a UK applicant. You will need to register if you haven’t already.

Or you can submit the forms to us by email to withdrawcancel@mhra.gov.uk

You can also submit the forms via the Central European System Platform (CESP).

Withdrawals

If you have submitted an application for a new MA, traditional herbal remedy and/or a parallel import product licence and you no longer want to proceed with application, you need to submit a withdrawal form. You should also use this form if you want to withdraw a variation application or amendment for an existing MA.

Complete the application to withdraw a pending application (MS Word Document, 35 KB) for and email it to us with ‘withdrawal’ as your subject line.

More information

[Email the MHRA]withdrawcancel@mhra.gov.uk for UK requirements.

Cancel a medicine's marketing authorisation or other licence