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AgVetLink for PAR Traders September 2004

Who must be approved as 'trading entities'?

The ACVM Group expects the following to apply for approval as a trading entity:

• any organisation (or individual) that establishes and operates a wholesale or retail supply of PAR products to end users;

• any registrant for PAR products who is involved in the distribution and supply of those products to end users.

This gives the Group a more comprehensive picture of the movement of PAR products in the marketplace, and it also recognises that wholesale operations have, very occasionally in the past, filled veterinary prescriptions and supplied PAR products directly to the public. It is expected that, in the future, wholesale operations are likely to be asked to fill veterinary prescriptions or supply PAR products under veterinary authorisations.

In summary, the basic rule is that anyone who offers PAR products for sale to the end user has to be approved by the ACVM Group. Depending on whether or not PAR products are supplied to the public, the following may have to be approved:

• veterinarians who operate a retail outlet supplying PAR products;

• pharmacists who operate a retail outlet supplying PAR products;

• people (including organisations or businesses) who are neither veterinarians or pharmacists who operate retail or wholesale outlets supplying PAR products;

• registrants of PAR products who at any time supply (wholesale or retail) those products to anyone other than a registered veterinarian or an approved trader;

• animal feed manufacturers or feed millers who stock PAR products without specific veterinary authorisations to hold them for use under that veterinarian’s direction or prescription.

Veterinarians

The ACVM Group has advised that all registered veterinarians are already considered to be approved traders (i.e. approved trading entities). Some veterinarians do not operate a retail outlet for PAR products. They only sell products directly to their clients as a result of their veterinary consultations. They do not involve any other non-veterinary staff in the sales transactions. The contact information associated with their veterinary registration is sufficient for the Group’s purposes. Veterinarians who operate in this way do not have to provide any additional information.

Veterinarians who operate retail outlets and/or involve non-veterinary staff in sales transactions must advise the ACVM Group of the name(s) of the person responsible for the retail outlet and for the staff involved in the sales transactions. They must also provide the address of each retail outlet location.