the previous law had a number of shortcomings including inadequate regulatory and procedural requirements for the control and management of controlled drugs and substances the description and categorization of drugrelated offences were not clearly outlined the absence of penal provisions for drugrelated offences the lack of a basis for determining the magnitude of such offences and the absence of provisions on the need for and validity of drug test requirements the new and comprehensive law restored the balance between demand reduction and supply reduction and addresses shortcomings of the act of to improve port security and prevent the illegal use of sea containers in transnational organized criminal activities including drug and precursor trafficking bangladesh and nepal joined the container control programme of unodc and wco in