(This PUBLIC NOTICE Supersessed vide PUBLIC NOTICE NO.62/2013, DT. 26/06/2014)
PUBLIC NOTICE No.31/2013, DT. 17/10/2013
Mono cartons to be treated as primary level packaging of export consignment of pharmaceuticals and drugs
In exercise of the powers conferred under Paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14, Director General of Foreign Trade amends the Public Notice No. 21 dated 10.01.2011 as under.
2. Sub-para (a) of Para 3 of Public Notice No. 21 dated 10.01.2011 is amended by adding a new sentence at the end of the existing para. The amended para would read as under:
“3 a. Incorporation of 2D (GS 1 Data Matrix) barcodes on medicines at strip/vials/bottle level encoding unique product identification code (GTIN), Batch Number, Expiry Date and Serial Number of the Primary pack. Mono cartons containing stripes/vials/bottle shall be treated as part of primary level packaging”
3. Effect of this Public Notice:
Mono cartons containing strips/vials/bottles shall be treated as Primary level packaging.
(Anup K.Pujari)
Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail : dgft[at]nic[dot]in
(Issued from F.No. 01/91/180/648/AM09/Export Cell)