The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has launched the process to gather inputs from the industry as part of the exercise of revising and fixing norms for Conversion Cost (CC), Packing Charges (PC), Process Loss (PL) and Packing Material (PM) for the year 2011 as per the provisions of DPCO, 1995.

Norms for CC, PC, PL & PM are to be based on the actual cost data and information received from various manufacturers and formulators, according to a note sent by the NPPA to the industry bodies, along with the detailed questionnaire.

“The information and data in respect of your pharma unit, may be furnished in a soft copy on Compact Disk (CD), along with duly signed hard copy and a copy of your Annual Report for the last two years i.e. 2008-09 & 2009-10. The data & information of any new product/new drug delivery system introduced with the latest technology & process of manufacture may be intimated separately along with the detailed write up on the process involved.  In case of any clarification, or doubt you may please contact the undersigned,” the letter said.

The technical and cost details in respect of any new packing / packing material which is not covered under the existing notified norms and has been recently introduced with latest and innovative technology may also be provided separately along with the questionnaire. “Suggestions are also solicited to the questionnaire for a suitable method of indexing the variable & major cost elements, which constitute CC & PC and the appropriate basis for indexing process losses,” it said.