CADDY Conformity Test Guidelines

CADDY dossiers should be checked by the submitting companies using the Conformity Testing Software (CTSW), before they are distributed to Member States, to ensure that the dossiers comply with the CADDY Format Specification.

Member States are advised to check incoming CADDY dossiers with the Conformity Testing Software (CTSW). Where dossiers are found to be non-compliant, Member States are advised to return them to the submitter and request that they be corrected.

Testing of CADDY 2.0 Dossiers

When CADDY 2.0 was developed, a new CTSW was developed as well. In this new CTSW some of the rules in the specification are checked more rigorously for the CADDY 2.0 dossiers than had been the case previously for CADDY 1.1 dossiers. By default the system verifies by itself whether a CADDY 1.1 or 2.0 dossier is being checked. For CADDY 1.1 dossiers , the rules as in CTSW 2.0.9 are followed, for CADDY 2.0 dossiers the new, stricter rules are applied.

Nevertheless, some companies are confronted with reports from Member States that certain of their older, CADDY 1.1 dossiers were tested as non-compliant. These dossiers previously did pass the CTSW 2.0.9 test. Obviously, version 2.0.22 of the CTSW does not treat the older dossiers like it should, i.e. in exactly the same way as the version 2.0.9 did.

It was therefore agreed between the European Commission and the Member States that when a CADDY 1.1 dossier does not pass conformity using the most recent Conformity Test Software, then it should be tested with version 2.0.9. If the dossier passes this test, it can be considered compliant.

Please report such findings to CADDY support, so that it can be corrected in the next release of the CADDY Conformity Test Software.