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Paragraph 5 The product

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(1)

The veterinary medicinal product must not be an antibiotic.

(2)

It must not contain any narcotic or psychotropic substance.

(3)

If it contains an active substance contained in a veterinary medicinal product authorised in the United Kingdom as a product that can only be prescribed by a veterinary surgeon, a product containing that active substance must have been so authorised for at least five years.

(4)

It must not be intended for treatments or pathological processes that require a precise prior diagnosis or the use of which may cause effects that impede or interfere with subsequent diagnostic or therapeutic measures.

(5)

The requirement that a veterinary medicinal product may only contain an active substance specified in the table in paragraph 4 does not apply in relation to a veterinary medicinal product on the market at the time this Schedule comes into force until 1st November 2007.