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!