Amended legislation: drug precursors added to list of scheduled substances
Source: FAMHP
January 14, 2021
The new European Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/1737 adds certain drug precursors to the list of scheduled substances. In addition, certain Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes for drug precursors were amended. The regulation enters into force in stages: the first stage started on 13 December 2020 and the second stage on 13 January 2021.
Drug precursors are substances that can be misused for the illicit manufacture of psychotropic substances and narcotic drugs. The newly added substances were freely available on the internet and were increasingly used by criminals for the illicit manufacture of drugs.