Friday, October 18, 2013

Monocarton is declared as primary pack by DGFT dt. 17.10.2013

-COPY OF
PUBLIC NOTICE NO.31(RE-2013)/2009-2014  Dated 17th October, 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:

“3a. 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.

Sd/-
(Anup K. Pujari)
Director General of Foreign Trade

F.No.01/91/180/648/AM09/Export Cell
Issued by:
Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate G