The EU Early Warning System, operated by the EUDA in close cooperation with Europol, plays a central role in supporting national- and EU-level preparedness and responses to new psychoactive substances (NPS). In operation since 1997, it comprises those two agencies, 29 national early warning systems across Europe, the European Medicines Agency and the European Commission.

The European Union Early Warning System on new psychoactive substances (EWS) is the first step in a three-step legal framework designed to allow the European Union (EU) to rapidly detect, assess, and respond to health and social threats caused by new psychoactive substances (NPS)(1). The work of the EWS aims to build, maintain, and strengthen situational awareness, preparedness, and response activities at national- and EU-level to NPS...

[See also the European Drug Alert System (EDAS) webpage]