1 Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy.
2 Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy; School of Public Health, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
3 Child and Baby Lab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
4 Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
5 Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
6 Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
7 The Methodology Center and Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, United States of America.
8 Addictions Department Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Fabrizio Faggiano and colleagues discuss how a central, transparent, and evidence-based approval process is needed for behavioral prevention interventions in Europe and propose a way forward. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.