Date	Event
05/11/2010	Dossier received by EFSA. Botanically defined flavourings from Botanical Group 08 – Sapindales for all animal species and categories. Submitted by Feed Flavourings Authorisation Consortium European Economic Interest Grouping (FFAC EEIG) and registered with the Question number EFSA‐Q‐2010‐01517
14/12/2010	Reception mandate from the European Commission
26/02/2011	EFSA informed the applicant (EFSA ref. 7150727) that, in view of the workload, the evaluation of applications on feed flavourings would be re‐organised by giving priority to the assessment of the chemically defined feed flavourings, as agreed with the European Commission
24/06/2015	Technical hearing during risk assessment with the applicant according to the “EFSA's Catalogue of support initiatives during the life‐cycle of applications for regulated products”: data requirement for the risk assessment of botanicals
17/06/2016	Technical hearing during risk assessment with the applicant according to the “EFSA's Catalogue of support initiatives during the life‐cycle of applications for regulated products”. Discussion on the ongoing work regarding the pilot dossiers BDG08 and BDG 09
27/04/2017	Trilateral meeting organised by the European Commission with EFSA and the applicant FEFANA on the assessment of botanical flavourings: characterisation, substances of toxicological concern present in the botanical extracts, feedback on the pilot dossiers
19/03/2018	Application validated by EFSA – Start of the scientific assessment
20/06/2018	Comments received from Member States
27/02/2019	Partial withdrawal by applicant (EC was informed) for the following additives: amyris oil, cashew oil, olibanum tincture, neroli bigarade oil, petitgrain bigarade absolute, mandarin terpenes, grapefruit oil expressed, grapefruit extract (sb), grapefruit extract
01/08/2019	Reception of supplementary information from the applicant (partial submission)
24/11/2020	Reception of supplementary information from the applicant (partial submission)
12/03/2021	The application was split and a new EFSA‐Q‐2021‐00143 was assigned to the preparation included in the present assessment.
17/03/2021	Reception of the Evaluation report of the European Union Reference Laboratory for Feed Additives ‐ Scientific assessment re‐started for the preparation included in the present assessment
02/04/2021	Partial withdrawal by applicant (EC was informed) for the following additive: olibanum extract (wb)
05/05/2021	Opinion adopted by the FEEDAP Panel. End of the Scientific assessment for the preparation included in the present assessment