2018/0401/PL
EC/EFTA
PL Pologne
  • C00P - PRODUITS PHARMACEUTIQUES ET COSMETIQUES
2018-11-26
2018-08-13

Psychotropic substances, narcotic drugs and new psychoactive substances, including medicinal products containing substances affecting the central nervous system.

Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the list of psychotropic substances, narcotic drugs and new psychoactive substances.

This draft regulation of the Minister of Health lays down: the list of psychotropic substances divided into groups I-P, II-P, III-P and IV-P, depending on the risk of addiction in the case of their use for purposes other than medical; the list of narcotic drugs divided into groups I-N, II-N, III-N and IV-N, depending on the risk of addiction in the case of their use for purposes other than medical, with specification of narcotic drugs class IV-N permitted for use in treating animals; the list of new psychoactive substances

- bearing in mind the impact of these substances on human life and health, the likeliness of causing social harm and the need for actions protecting wild animals,

taking into account:

1) the provisions of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 (Journal of Laws [Dziennik Ustaw] 1976, item 180) and the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 (Journal of Laws 1966, item 277) amended with the Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1972 (Journal of Laws 1996, item 149);

2) substances and drugs listed in the Annex to the Council Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA of 25 October 2004 laying down minimum provisions on the constituent elements of criminal acts and penalties in the field of illicit drug trafficking (O J L 335 of 11 November 2004, p. 8, as amended), subject to the same means of control and criminal penalties as psychotropic substances and narcotic drugs;

3) the assessment and content of the recommendation of the Panel for the assessment of risks to human life and health related to the use of new psychoactive substances.

Annexes 1 and 2 to the draft regulation list all psychotropic substances and narcotic drugs included in the UN conventions and the provisions of the European Union. Moreover, the draft includes psychotropic substances and narcotic drugs other than the above but listed in Annexes 1 and 2 to the Drug Prevention Act in its previous wording before the amendment to the act transferred these substances and drugs to this implementing act.