Reverse acceptance when handling dietary supplements

AAU Soyuzpharma sent an appeal to Opora Rossii with a request to support the initiative to introduce reverse acceptance in the circulation of dietary supplements and other pharmaceutical products. From September 1, 2025, the industry will switch to individual accounting for dietary supplements and antiseptics.

The Association asks Opora Rossii to contact the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia with a request to change the legislative norms. According to paragraph 44 of the RF Government Resolution No. 1556 of 14.12.2018, both direct and reverse procedures for submitting information on the circulation of medicinal products are possible in the MDLP system.

The problem is that the movement of goods will be reflected in the GIS MT system (State Information System for Monitoring the Circulation of Goods), where the possibility of reverse acceptance is not provided, as was previously the case in the MDLP system ((monitoring the movement of medicinal products), and the use of reverse acceptance by participants in the circulation of medicinal products is 95%, while direct acceptance is used mainly in the supply of government contracts and the supply of accounting groups of drugs.

Direct confirmation procedure (direct acceptance) - the supplier is the first to provide information on the shipment of marked goods to the MDLP IS. The recipient will be the second to report on the acceptance of the goods. In this case, the recipient will have the opportunity to compare their data with the supplier's information.

The reverse confirmation procedure (reverse acceptance) is the procedure in which the pharmacy receives drugs from the supplier, scans their GTIN and sends information about the acceptance of drugs to the warehouse to the MDLP IS, and the supplier confirms the information about the acceptance to the buyer's warehouse.

According to Maria Litvinova, director of Soyuzpharma, more than 90% of orders are shipped in retail packaging, in quantities significantly smaller than the volume of the factory box, and the process of collecting orders is largely automated and does not involve scanning packages during the process, and the use of direct acceptance to transmit information about marked goods on a per-item basis entails additional costs for ensuring this process.

Dmitry Pogrebinsky, CEO of CV Protek, also noted that the use of direct acceptance to transfer information about labeled goods on a per-item basis will lead to additional costs, and for one company, additional costs will amount to 5.6 million rubles per month or 67.5 million rubles per year.