MANU/CHFZ/0085/2017

Ministry : Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Department/Board : Pharmaceuticals

Order From File No. : 20(8)/2013/Div-III/NPPA/Part-3/vol.III

Date : 03.10.2017

Subject: Law of Medicine

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

To 

I. All manufacturers /importers/marketers of Orthopedic Knee implant System

Ensuring compliance of the price capping of the Primary Knee and Revision Knee along with maintaining its uninterrupted supply

The undersigned is directed to state that the Department of Pharmaceuticals vide its notification No. 31026/31/2007-Pricing, dated 18.09.2017 invoked the powers under paragraph 3 of Drugs Prices Control Order, 2013 and directed the companies :-

i. to furnish the production figures for 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18;

ii. to maintain production/import/supply of the orthopedic knee implant systems at the same levels before August, 2017;

iii. to submit a weekly report on orthopedic knee implant system produced and distributed.

2. As per the above notification of the Department of Pharmaceuticals all manufacturers/ importers/ marketers of orthopedic knee implant system are required to comply the above direction in letter and spirit. Therefore, for uniformity and also to enable the companies to submit the data, three excel formats have been devised and enclosed as Table-A and Table-B and Table-C. The details of the same are as follows:-

i) Table-A is to submit production/import /sales figures for the years 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 upto July, 2017. 

ii) Table-B is to submit production/import /sales figures for the month of August, 2017 in two parts. Part (i) from 01 /08/2017 to 15/08/2017 and part (ii) from 16/08/2017 to 31/08/2017.

iii) Table-C is for submitting weekly report for production/import /sales of orthopedic knee implant system.