Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

P11: Authorization or permit requirements to export, for technical reasons 

Date when the measure came into force

26 August 1967 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Dangerous Drugs Act. 

Regulation where the measure is specified

The Dangerous Drugs Act 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health 

Description of the measure

5 (1) It shall not be lawful for a person to export from Zambia a drug to which this Part applies except under a licence granted by the Minister.
5 (2) If at any time the importation into a foreign country of a drug to which this Part applies is prohibited or restricted by the laws of that country, there shall, while that prohibition or restriction is in force, be attached to every licence which is issued by the Minister under this Act authorising the export of that drug from Zambia such conditions as
appear to him necessary for preventing or restricting, as the case may be, the exportation of that drug from Zambia to that country during such time as the importation of that drug into that country is so prohibited or restricted, and any such licence issued before the prohibition or restriction came into force shall, if the Minister by order so directs, be
deemed to be subject to the like conditions.
9. It shall not be lawful for a person to import into, or to export from, Zambia, any
prepared opium. 

Reference of the measure

Regulations 5 ; 9 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Drugs
Prepared opium 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.