India amends fee structure, new form for import certificate introduced for NDPS; market forecasts

The Department of Revenue, under India's Union Ministry of Finance, has revised and introduced a new fee structure for processing applications for manufacturing licence and import and export certificated for narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances through an amendment to the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Rules, 1985, reports the local PharmaBiz news service.

Through notifying the NDPS (Amendment) Rules, 2010, in July, the department has revised the fee for manufacturing license and renewal of manufacturing license for manufacture of synthetic narcotic drugs from Rs 50 to Rs 5000 per application.

The department has also introduced fee for issuance of import and exports of NDPS, through the amendment. According to this, Fee of Rs 1000 has been introduced per application for issuance of both import certificate for import of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and issuance of export authorization for export of the drugs.