Resolution 55/6. Developing an international electronic import and export authorization system for licit trade in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

Reaffirming that ensuring access to controlled narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes is one of the fundamental objectives of the international drug control conventions,

Recalling the publication entitled Report of the International Narcotics Control Board on the Availability of Internationally Controlled Drugs: Ensuring Adequate Access for Medical and Scientific Purposes,45 a supplement to the report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2010,46 which highlighted the fact that the consumption of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in many countries has been below the levels required to ensure the adequate availability of those narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and/or scientific purposes and provided recommendations on how to increase access to those substances while preventing their diversion for illicit purposes,

Recognizing that some Governments have followed the recommendations contained in the above-mentioned publication and taken measures to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes, which will lead to further increases in international trade in those substances and subsequently increase the workload of competent national authorities with respect to issuing import and export authorizations for those substances,