Federal Opium Agency

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The Federal Opium Agency ( BOPST ) belongs to the division of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) and regulates the traffic with narcotics ( Narcotics and Psychotropics ) and basic substances ( Precursors ). Action is based on the Narcotics Act of 1981 (BtMG) and the Basic Substance Monitoring Act of 1994 (GÜG).

construction

The Federal Opium Agency is Department 8 of the BfArM, which is divided into four specialist areas. About 50 people are employed there. Each subject area is headed by a pharmacist.

tasks

  • Issuance of permits to participate in narcotics and / or raw materials traffic
  • Monitoring of the traffic of narcotics and raw materials at the license holders (manufacturers, dealers, importers, exporters, growers and scientific institutions) by checking the reports according to § 18 BtMG and § 18 GÜG and inspections of the operating facilities and storage rooms
  • Issuance of import and export licenses for narcotics and raw materials
  • Preparation, issue and evaluation of the official forms required for prescribing narcotics ( narcotic prescriptions / request forms)
  • Maintaining the substitution register according to § 5a BtMVV
  • Issuance of narcotic number notifications for pharmacies and veterinary house pharmacies
  • National contact point for the implementation of the Council resolution of the European Union on the transmission of samples of controlled substances, as announced on December 9, 2002 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 26345)
  • Administrative agency within the meaning of the international narcotics conventions of 1961 , 1971 and 1988 : reports to the International Narcotics Control Council on the national consumption of narcotics for medical and scientific purposes as well as reports to the European Commission on the type and extent of cross-border traffic or the traffic of basic substances

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Obviously incorrect source, which is on the side of the Federal Opium Agency as well as with Winfried Kleinert in Fuhrmann / Klein / Fleischfresser, Drug Law, Part 10 Special Legal Issues § 43 Narcotics and Basic Substance Monitoring Rn. 70, 2nd edition 2014.