Guidance for introduction, use and placing on the Northern Ireland (NI) market of parallel trade products
The document: NI Guidance for Parallel Trade Permits provides information under the headings shown below:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Definitions
- 3. What is parallel trade?
- 4. When parallel trade provisions do not apply
- 5. How are products determined to be identical?
- 6. Information not accepted as evidence of identical composition
- 7. Applying for a new or amended parallel trade permit
- 8. Maximum of one source product for each new parallel trade permit
- 9. Information to be supplied by the applicant
- 10. Reasons for refusing an application
- 11. Granting of parallel trade permit
- 12. Reasons for amending or withdrawing parallel trade permits
- 13. Fees and processing times
- 14. Late or non-payment of fees
- 15. Batch variation
- 16. Packaging requirements
- 17. Labelling requirements
- 18. Record keeping
- 19. Transport and handling