Swissmedic to accept eCTD starting in 2010

The Swiss Health Authority Swissmedic will accept applications in eCTD format starting in January 2010.  They have an announcement for all this on their website, but it doesn't do you much good unless you read German, which sadly, I cannot. 

http://www.swissmedic.ch/aktuell/00003/00870/index.html?lang=en

It's not that hard to figure out, but it's better not to to take chances.  eCTDblog.com has kindly put it all through a google translator and voila, English!  The sentence structure is still German though, and that's kind of cool.

http://www.ectdblog.com/2009/03/swissmedic-ectd-announcement.html

For those of you that don't care about all this language stuff and just want the information, here are the highlights:

January 2009 - Project Kickoff

March 2009 and on - Publication of Project information on Swissmedic webpage

July 2009 - First version of Swiss eCTD specification and guidance will be available

October 2009 - Final version of Swiss eCTD specification and guidance available

January 2010 - Applications in eCTD format that are of an acceptable submission type will be accepted