WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.96.111
26April 1996
ORGANIZATION
(96-1614)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: SWEDEN
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Medical Products Agency
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): Narcotic drugs
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Supervision on
Narcotic Drugs
6. Description ofcontent: Thedraft contains provisions onimport, export, manufacture,
trade andstorage ofnarcotics. There arealso provisions ondocumentation.
Authorization bytheMedical Products Agency isrequired forimport, export,
manufacture andwholesale. Thedraft contains minimum requirements onstorage,
packaging andmarking ofnarcotic drugs aswellasondocumentation. There isalsoan
obligation forpersons importing orexporting narcotics toreport certain aspects tothe
Medical Products Agency.
7. Objective andrationale: Tomaintain anadequate supervision onthehandling of
narcotics inSweden.
. Relevant documents: Ordinance onSupervision ofNarcotic Drugs (SFS 1992:1554),
Single Convention onNarcotic Drugs, 1961, Convention onPsychotropic
Substances, 1971.
9. Proposed dateofadoption: Assoonaspossible
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:
10. Final dateforcomments: 17June1996
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: