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Support to the re-evaluation of approved food additives under Regulation (EU) No 257/2010
Other EU programmes · EUBA-EFSA-2027-FIP-01
Framework partnerships with EFSA for scientific and technical support to the re-evaluation of approved food additives.
What is this call about?
The call funds scientific and technical support to EFSA for the re-evaluation of approved food additives, covering calls for data, literature searches and systematic reviews. It is restricted to competent organisations designated by EU Member States under Article 36.
What does this call fund?
Scope
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) seeks scientific and technical assistance for its FIP Unit with the preparatory work for scientific outputs on food additives that remain to be re-evaluated under Regulation (EU) No 257/2010, and for their follow-up assessments. EFSA estimates that the additives listed in the call, including sweeteners such as sorbitol, mannitol, isomalt, maltitol, lactitol and xylitol, and substances such as acetic, lactic, malic, fumaric and citric acid and their salts, will lead to about 20 scientific opinions.
Work packages
- WP 1: support for calls for data, including drafting call texts and compiling the responses and confidentiality claims into a report.
- WP 2: support for literature reviews, including searches in Scifinder, PubMed and Web of Science (English-language publications only) and screening of references at title, abstract and full-text level.
- WP 3: support for other steps of systematic reviews, such as relevance checks, risk-of-bias evaluation and weight-of-evidence tables.
How the grant works
The call leads to three framework partnership agreements in cascade, each with a single partner. Work is assigned through specific agreements, first offered to the highest-ranked partner. Payments are pre-defined sums per accepted deliverable, from €500 to €10,000 depending on complexity, and are not linked to actual costs. No co-financing and no estimated budget are needed. Tasks are generally carried out remotely and the working language is English.
Other conditions
Subcontracting is not allowed. Applicants indicate whether large language models were used to prepare the proposal; uploading confidential information to AI tools is forbidden for task 1b.
What are the key facts?
- Topic budget
- €300,000
- Call code
- EUBA-EFSA-2027-FIP-01
- Programme
- Other EU programmes
- Funder
- European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
- Eligible applicants
- organisations on the Article 36 list of competent organisations designated by Member States
- Duration
- framework partnership agreements of up to 4 years; specific agreements typically 3 to 12 months
- Expected number of projects
- three framework partnership agreements
Who can apply for this call?
- Only organisations on the list of competent organisations designated by the Member States under Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 2230/2004.
- Applicants check that they are on this list before applying.
- Proposals are submitted by one eligible organisation; consortia are not permitted.
- Hungarian public interest trusts established under Hungarian Act IX of 2021, and entities they maintain, cannot take part in any funded role while the Council measures apply.
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When is the deadline?
28 January 2027 (83 days)
28 January 2027, 17:00 CET. Clarification questions can be sent until 20 January 2027.
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Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal and the official call documents. Official call page Last updated 22 October 2026.