Import Requirements
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Importing UK-licensed medicines means assembling the right documentation set for your destination regulator. This free tool shows the documents most commonly required, tailored to your market and supply scenario, so your procurement, registration and customs steps are not held up by a missing certificate. Euro Biom is a UK MHRA WDA-licensed wholesale exporter and supplies UK-licensed, MHRA-authorised medicines only.
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A short explainer of every document the checker can list, written for hospital pharmacists, procurement teams and registration leads importing UK-licensed medicines.
Certificate of Pharmaceutical Product (CPP)
A certificate in World Health Organization format confirming a medicine's UK marketing authorisation status. It is the single most commonly requested document for medicine registration and import worldwide. The MHRA issues it on application by the UK Marketing Authorisation Holder.
GMP Certificate (Good Manufacturing Practice)
A certificate issued after a regulator inspects a manufacturing site, confirming it makes medicines to recognised quality standards. Destination regulators frequently require GMP evidence for the manufacturer of an imported product before allowing import or registration.
Certificate of Free Sale
A document confirming a product is freely sold in the UK and may be lawfully exported. Some destination regulators accept a CPP in its place, others request both. Whether you need one depends on your destination country's import rules.
Certificate of Analysis (CoA) and Batch Release
The Certificate of Analysis lists the laboratory tests performed on a specific manufactured batch and the results against specification. Batch release confirms that batch was formally released for supply. Both are batch-specific, so they tie directly to the units you receive.
MHRA WDA(H) Supplier Verification
A Wholesale Dealer Authorisation, WDA(H), is the MHRA licence that permits a UK company to wholesale and export medicines. Verifying the supplier against the MHRA register confirms they are a legitimate, inspected wholesaler. Euro Biom holds WDA(H) 59239.
Import Permit and Named-Patient Authorisation
An authorisation from the destination country's medicines regulator or health ministry permitting a specific import. For UK-licensed products not separately registered locally, this may take the form of a named-patient or institutional import authorisation held by the buyer. It is a destination-side document.
Document Legalisation and Apostille
The process of officially authenticating documents so a foreign authority will accept them. In the UK it typically begins with an apostille from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, followed where required by embassy or consulate attestation. GCC markets commonly require this two-step chain.
Cold-Chain Data Logger and Temperature Record
For products that must stay within 2 to 8 degrees Celsius, the shipment carries a continuous temperature logger record and GDP chain-of-custody documentation covering transit. These records prove the cold chain held from dispatch to delivery and are checked by customs and receiving pharmacies.
UK-licensed medicines, supplied by an MHRA WDA holder.
Euro Biom trades only in UK-licensed, MHRA-authorised medicines. It is not a manufacturer, pharmacy or retailer. Named-patient import, as used in this tool, refers to the buyer's destination-country import route for bringing in a UK-licensed product where it is not separately registered locally, not Euro Biom supplying an unlicensed product. This checker is a general reference. Destination import permits, registration, legalisation and named-patient authorisations are set by the importing country and its appointed agents. Euro Biom provides the UK-side documentation that those imports depend on, and assembles the dossier per shipment under WDA(H) 59239 and full GDP records.
Requirements Checker.
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Further reading and tools for procurement teams, registration leads and hospital pharmacists importing UK-licensed medicines.