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:
- Introduction
- Definitions
- What is parallel trade?
- When parallel trade provisions do not apply
- How are products determined to be identical?
- Information not accepted as evidence of identical composition
- Applying for a new or amended parallel trade permit
- Maximum of one source product for each new parallel trade permit
- Information to be supplied by the applicant
- Reasons for refusing an application
- Granting of parallel trade permit
- Reasons for amending or withdrawing parallel trade permits
- Fees and processing times
- Late or non-payment of fees
- Batch variation
- Packaging requirements
- Labelling requirements
- Record keeping
- Transport and handling