Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B9: TBT Measures n.e.s. 

Date when the measure came into force

22 March 2013 

Publication where the measure is specified

Medicines and Allied Substances Act, 2013. 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Medicines and Allied Substance Act 2013 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health and B: Protection of life and health of animals 

Description of the measure

(4) This section does not apply to—
(a) donated medicines;
(b) a person importing medicine for that person’s use or for the use of that person’s relative, if the quantity of the imported medicine is based on the prescription;
(c) a physician, dentist or veterinary surgeon importing medicine on the physician’s, dentist’s or veterinary surgeon’s order for administration to a person or animal, if the quantity of the imported medicine is based on a prescription;
(e)medicine imported or exported in response to a declared health emergency;
(f)medicine imported by an authorised institution for administration to patients under its care; and
(g) any medicine or allied substance used for purposes of a clinical trial. 

Reference of the measure

PART V : Regulation 39 ( 4 a, b, c, e, f, g) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Medicines 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.