Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A81: Product registration and approval requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

24 March 2014 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instruments 29 of 2014. 

Regulation where the measure is specified

The National Drug Policy and Authority (Registration) Regulations, 2014. 

Country/Region applying the measure

Uganda 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health 

Description of the measure

27(1) A person who intends to manufacture, import or export a surgical instrument shall, prior to the manufacture, importation or exportation of the surgical instrument, apply to the Authority for registration of the surgical instrument.
(2) An application for registration of a surgical instrument shall be made to the Authority in the prescribed Form 7 of Schedule 6 to these Regulations.
28 (2) Where a test kit is licensed or registered outside Uganda, all the reagents or articles of the test kit that are manufactured by the manufacturer of the test kit are deemed, for the purposes of its importation, sale or advertisement, to have been registered in Uganda. 

Reference of the measure

Part III Regulations 27 (1) & (2) : Form 7; Regulation 28 (2) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

surgical instrument; Reagents 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.