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title: What Is a Submission Category?
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# What Is a Submission Category?

When you select Create Submission there are 5 submission categories to choose from:

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### **New Product**

- Add your brand new product and packs that are not currently listed on the dm+d browser

### **New Pack**

- Add a brand new pack for a product that is currently listed on the dm+d browser (e.g. a new size of pack)

### **Update Product**

- Discontinue a product and all its related packs from the dm+d browser
- Update your product on the dm+d browser with new information (e.g. route of administration, excipients, or licence details)

### **Update Pack**

- Discontinue a specific pack size for a product, keeping the other packs on the dm+d browser
- Update your pack that is currently listed on the dm+d browser with new information (e.g. new legal category, calendar pack, hospital pack, limited stability)
- Change the price of a product pack that is currently listed on the dm+d browser
- Reinstate a pack that was removed from the market is now available again

### **Mass Price Update**

- Change more than one pack price at the same time

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