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AgVetLink for PAR Traders September 2004

Operational responsibility

Before approval of a trading entity, the ACVM Group must be confident that the operation will comply with the ACVM Standard for Prescription Animal Remedy Veterinary Medicines. The persons specified as operationally responsible for the trading activities must be confirmed as fit and proper persons:

• through a history of acceptable behaviour that is known to the ACVM Group; or

• via the annual re-registration process for veterinarians and pharmacists; or

• if the person is not a veterinarian or pharmacist and not known to the ACVM Group, through the procedure specified in part 2 of the application for approval as a trader (this only involves a check with the New Zealand Police to confirm that the person has no felony convictions relevant to the responsible control of drugs).

The ACVM Group has received applications in which agents were designated as responsible and yet those persons appeared to have no operational responsibility. The ACVM Group will ask for confirmation of operational responsibility for trading activities and for sales personnel if the information provided in the application does not make this obvious.

Management of individuals in accordance with the quality system upon which the approval was granted is the responsibility of the approved entity. Failure to manage PAR products adequately may result in suspension or withdrawal of the approval to trade issued to the entity, limiting further access to the products. The list of approved traders will be public information.