Kuwait

v. 28 – Q4 2023

Major Update: Joint GHC (Gulf Health Council) e-leaflet pilot, fully mandated by 2025.

Market Executive Summary The State of Kuwait has no traceability requirements as of now but stated in Dec 2022 that from 1 Jan 2024, all pharmaceutical products to be sold in Kuwait must have a GS1 DataMatrix with 4 data elements.
Details of Master data required to be uploaded to GS1 Kuwait and if or when reporting will be required to GS1 Kuwait, are to be confirmed.
There is no longer a requirement to print the pack size.
Key Dates
  • January 1, 2024: All pharmaceutical products to be sold in Kuwait, imported, or locally manufactured, must have a GS1 DataMatrix with 4 data elements.
  • End of December 2023: All Master data must have been provided though GS1 Kuwait
  • January 1, 2023: All local agents to start uploading basic information (Master data) to GS1 Kuwait (details of how and what are TBC)

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