Government of India
Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Public Notice No. 31 (RE-2013)/2009-2014
New Delhi, Dated the 17 October, 2013
Sub: 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.
- 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”
- 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)