The Central Drug Standard Control Organisation upgraded the provision for auto-generated Market Standing Certificate for export purposes under Medical Devices Rules, 2017-reg.
The notice shared on April 9, 2025, stated, “The current online application workflow for the grant of Market Standing Certificate (MSC) and Non-Conviction Certificate (NCC) for medical devices licensed by Central Licensing Authority is upgraded in the Online System for Medical devices with a new workflow for auto-generated MSC and NCC certificate.”
Therefore, the CDSCO requests all concerned stakeholders to re-submit fresh MSC and NCC applications from the date of issuance of this notice. Additionally, the regulatory body also notifies that all current MSC and NCC applications received by CDSCO in the old workflow will be automatically rejected by the system.
Another notification from the CDSCO published on April 9, 2025, indicates that the provision for the system auto-generated Neutral Code under the Medical Devices Rules, 2017, has also been upgraded. The provision will be available through the existing online system of the Medical Devices portal. Consequently, the existing provision for issuance of Neutral Code by the Central Licensing Authority will be non-functional from the date of implementation of the new procedure.
The notification signed by Dr Rajeev Raghuvanshi also mentions that under the new provision, the manufacturers having valid manufacturing licenses can obtain the Neutral code through the option available in the approved manufacturing license from their dashboard for downloading the Neutral Code.
The CDSCO requests that all the concerned stakeholders must obtain system auto-generate Neutral code under Medical Devices Rules, 2017 through the new provision for export purpose.
According to the CDSCO, these upgrades were made to promote ease of business and to simplify the regulatory procedure.