NATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL PRICING AUTHORITY

Department of Chemicals, Petrochemicals and Pharmaceuticals,

Ministry of Chemicals, Fertilizers and Pharmaceutical

Government of India

New Delhi 

Sub: Press Release regarding the study relating to revision of norms for CC, PC, PL & PM for the year, 2009 for Indian Pharmaceutical Industry.

            As per the provisions of DPCO, 1995, NPPA has to revise & fix the norms for conversion Cost (CC), Packing Charges (PC), Process Loss (PL) and Packing Material (PM) for the year 2009.

2. These norms for CC, PC, PL & PM are to be worked out based on actual cost data / information received from various manufacturers & formulators. Soft copy of two questionnaires are available on the official website of NPPA i.e. www.nppaindia.nic.in. The Industry Associations have been requested to give wide publicity to their members about the study.
3. The Pharma manufacturing units & companies have been requested to furnish the information / data to NPPA in a soft copy on Compact Diskette (CD) and a duly singed hard copy along with the copy of the Annual Report of the company for the last two years i.e. 2006-07 & 2007-08.
4. Please note that the last date of submission of the aforesaid data and information is 15^th February, 2009.