SLOVAKIA´S EXPERIENCE WITH USING NDS

PROGRAMME

Fifth NDS Users Group Meeting

Ottawa, 10-12 March 2003

Purpose

• History of NDS using in Slovakia

• Responsibility of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic

• Used modules

• Contributions of NDS

• Proposals for improvements

• Conclusion

History

Starting period of narcotic drugs legal movement control

• No specific application software

One PC installations

• NDS 3.0. demo version since 1999

• NDS 4.0. since June 2000

Multi -user version installed at 5 PC

• NDS 5.0. since January 2003

Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic

- control of legal movement of narcotics and psychotropic substances

- licensing operators handling with precursor chemicals

Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic

WITH RESPECT TO NARCOTICS AND

PSYCHOTROPICS PROVIDES

CONTROL OVER

• 3 manufacturers

• cca 40 wholesalers

• more than 1100 retailers (pharmacies)

Number of authorizations issued

Number of authorizations issued for import and exportof narcotics and psychotropic substances

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

Počet povolení

Number of Authorizations

YEAR

11772002

13962001

19052000

26101999

EXECUTIVE BODIESEXECUTIVE BODIES• Ministry of Health• Ministry of Economy

- issuing permissions for individual transactions connected with precursor chemicals

• Ministry of Agriculture

Drug Control Authorities in Slovakia

REPRESIVE BODIESREPRESIVE BODIES• Ministry of Interior

(Home Office)• Ministry of Finance• Ministry of Justice

USED NDS 5.0. Modules in Slovakia

• Masters

• Import/Export Documents

• Narcotics

• Psychotropics

• EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

• Parameters

Contributions of NDS in Slovakia

• NDS helps in international control of narcotics and psychotropic substances (import/export authorizations)

• NDS assists in complying with the statistical reporting requirements (it helps to complete all Forms A, A/P, B, B/P, C and P)

• Recently partially helps in national management of drug control activities

MastersUsing of all sub modules from Masters

module

• Competent Authority Master

• Substances Master

• Establishment Master

Competent Authority Master

• CA Master

• CA Department Master

Substances Master

• Pure Substance Master

• Variation substance Master

• Substance Master

• Permitted -Restricted Substance

• Preparation Type Master

• Preparation Master

• Group Master

Establishment

• Establishment Master

• Establishment Type Master

• Establishment Substance Master

IMPORT/EXPORT DOCUMENTS

• Sequence number

• Assignment between the county and the preparation

• Endorsements

FORMS• NARCOTICSNARCOTICS

Form A Form A

Form BForm B

Form CForm C

• PSYCHOTROPCS

Form A/P

Form B/P

Form P

Proposals for improvements

• In Narcotics and Psychotropics Modules to add a new flag with the figures showing calculation to base content.

• In Import/Export Document Module create so called neutral position in neutral mode (not add, not query…).

• In Establishment Master Module to widen number of characters in each field.

Conclusions

• To train additional staff

• Start using License module

• At the domestic level start to collect data on licit drug control by NDS electronic means

Thank you for your attention!