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