'File E8/4 II: Interdicts: Import of Opium into Bahrain' [‎18v] (37/863)

Please give here the statement explaining the
method by which the several amounts shown in
this estimate have been calculated (Article 5, 3, of
the Convention of July 13th, 1931):
Notes.
Sole 1. Morphine: This heading refers to morphine in the following forms: {a) pure
morphine; (6) crude morphine; (c) salts of morphine; {d) preparations which contain more
than 20 per cent of morphine made direct from raw or medicinal opium; [e) preparations which
contain more than 0.2 per cent of morphine made from any of the forms of morphine mentioned
in (a), (6), (c) or {d) ; (/) solutions and dilutions of morphine in an inert substance, liquid or solid,
made from any of the forms of morphine mentioned in {a), (b), [c) or {d), even if these solutions
and dilutions contain 0.2 per cent or less of morphine.
Where the figure entered in this column includes pure morphine contained in crude morphine,
the weight of such pure morphine and also the weight of the crude morphine should be indicated
separately under " Remarks
Note 2. Cocaine: This heading refers to cocaine in the following forms: (a) pure cocaine;
(b) crude cocaine; (c) salts of cocaine; (d) preparations which contain more than 0 .1 per cent
of cocaine made direct from the coca leaf; (e) preparations which contain more than 0 .1 per
cent of cocaine made from any of the forms of cocaine mentioned in (a), (b), (c) or (d); [f] solutions
and dilutions of cocaine in an inert substance, liquid or solid, made from any of the forms of
cocaine mentioned in (a), {b), (c) or (d), even if these solutions and dilutions contain 0 .1 per cent
or less of cocaine.
Where the figure entered in this column includes pure cocaine contained in crude cocai
the weight of such pure cocaine and also the weight of the crude cocaine should be indicated
separately under " Remarks
Note 3. When figures are given for one of the substances mentioned below in answer
to the questions in the present form, the quantities required should be inserted in the blank
column ; when more than one substance is required, additional columns should be added.
Dihydromorphine and its salts (paramorfan) and preparations;
Morphine-iV-oxide (genomorphine) and its preparations;
Thebaine and its salts and preparations;
Ecgonine and its salts and preparations;
The esters of ecgonine and their salts and preparations;
The esters of morphine other than diacetylmorphine and their salts and preparations;
Benzylmorphine and its salts (peronine) and preparations;
The other ethers of morphine and their salts and preparations, except methylmorphine
(codeine) and its salts, and ethylmorphine and its salts (dionine);
The esters of the following : dihydrohydroxycodeinone. dihydrocodeinone, dihydromor-
phinone, acetyldihydrocodeinone or acetyldemethylodihydrothebaine, dihydro
morphine and their salts and preparations;
The morphine-iV-oxide derivatives and the other pentavalent nitrogen morphine
derivatives and their preparations.
Note 4. By medical needs are to be understood all requirements for medical purposes,
including dental and veterinary requirements.
Note 5. The preparations for the export of which export authorisations are not required
are: (.1) preparations containing any of the drugs which have been exempted under Article 8
of the Convention of February 19th, 1925; (2) preparations containing 0.2 per cent or less of
morphine or 0.1 per cent or less of cocaine, but not the solutions or dilutions in an inert substance
(see Article 13, 1 (6), of the Convention of July 13th, 1931); (3) preparations containing of
the drugs in group II (codeine and dionine) which are adapted to a normal therapeutic u. v see
Article 13, 2, of the Convention of July 13th, 1931).
Note 6. In order to secure a uniform basis for the preparation of estimates and statistics,
it is recommended that Governments should adopt the following interpretation of the terms
" reserve stocks " and " Government stocks ".
The term reserve stocks " should be taken to mean the normal working stocks maintained
by manufacturers and wholesalers for the normal domestic consumption of the country, for
conversion in the country, and for export. The effect of this interpretation will be that, in making
estimates and in compiling statistics of reserve stocks. Governments will not take into account
stocks in the hands of retailers.
"Government stocks" should, as far as possible, be regarded as including only stocks under
Government control for the use of the military, naval and air forces of the country or to meet
exceptional circumstances.
Any stocks of drugs held by the Government for normal domestic consumption in the country
by the civilian population, whether such drugs are sold by the Government or distributed
gratuitously, should, for the purpose of the estimates and the statistics furnished to the
Permanent Central Board, be included in the "reserve stocks".