Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B31: Labelling requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

03 December 1993 

Publication where the measure is specified

CHAPTER 206 THE NATIONAL DRUG POLICY AND AUTHORITY ACT. 

Regulation where the measure is specified

THE NATIONAL DRUG POLICY AND AUTHORITY ACT 

Country/Region applying the measure

Uganda 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health and D: Control drug abuse 

Description of the measure

11. Drug nomenclature.
All drugs imported in Uganda shall be labelled, known and prescribed by their International Nonproprietary Names (generic names) except where no such name has been allocated and no satisfactory nonproprietary alternative
exists. 

Reference of the measure

Part III section 11 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Drugs 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries