Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B32: Marking requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

11 September 2015 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instrument 97 of 2015 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Medicines and Allied Substances Control (Complementary Medicines) Regulations, 2015 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zimbabwe 

The rationale of the measure

Not stated in the regulations 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

(3)Every complementary medicine shall, where possible be marked with the housemark of the principal or the manufacturer of a particularcomplementary medicine , as the case may be and such other distinguishing mark for the purpose of identifying such medicine.
(4) Every complementary medicineapproved in terms of these regulations shall bear the words "NO APPROVED THERAPEUTIC CLAIMS" on the label,unless otherwise exempted by the Authority from complying with the requirements. 

Reference of the measure

Art 10 (3) and (4) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Aromatherapeutic substances, Ayurvedic Medicines, Energy Substances or Medicines, Homeopathic Remedies, Nutritional Substance in pharmaceutical form, Traditional Chinese Medicines, Traditional Dutch Remedies, Unanni Tibb Medicines, Western Herbal Medicines and such other medicines or remedies as may be approved by the Authority 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries