New Delhi, Aug 8 (KNN) The government has postponed to April 1, 2015, the date of effect of implementation of barcoding on mono-cartons as secondary level packaging on export consignment of pharmaceuticals and drugs for tracing and tracking purpose.

Mono cartons are used as packaging material for most of the consumer goods products, pharmaceuticals, IT, telecom etc in large volumes.

“Mono cartons are to be treated as part of Secondary Level Packaging and accordingly the requirement of affixing bar-codes on Mono-carton as Secondary Level Packaging became effective from 26.06.2014,” Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a public notice.

“Now the effective date of affixing bar-codes on Mono-carton as Secondary Level Packaging has been deferred to April 1, 2015.  There shall be no other change in Public Notice No. 62 dated 26.06.2014,” it added.

Earlier DGFT has said in its notification that mono cartons were to be treated as part of primary level packaging. Now this has been modified to treat mono cartons as secondary level packaging.

Earlier this year, the commerce ministry had postposed the implementation of barcoding on export consignment of pharmaceuticals and drugs on primary level packaging till further notification from the ministry. (KNN/SD)