Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B31: Labelling requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

03 January 1994 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Control of Goods Act 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Control of Goods (Import of Medicinal Substances and Poisons) Regulations. 

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

3. (1) No person shall import into Zambia any article consisting of or comprising a substance recommended as, or intended to be used as, a medicine unless there is written so as to be clearly legible on the article or a label affixed thereto, or, if the article is imported in a container, on the container or a label affixed thereto, or, if the article is imported in more than one container, on the inner container or a label affixed thereto-
(a) the appropriate designation of the substance so recommended, or of each of the active constituents thereof, or of each of the ingredients of which it has been compounded; and
(b) if the appropriate designation of each of the active constituents or the ingredients is written as aforesaid, the appropriate quantitative particulars of the constituents or ingredients. 

Reference of the measure

Regulation 3 ( 1 ) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Article consisting of or comprising a substance recommended as, or intended to be used as, a medicine 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.