This Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine No. 617 dated 14.05.2026 is a technical document aimed at correcting editorial and formal errors in the previous Order No. 527 dated 22.04.2026. The primary purpose of the act is to bring the approval stamps and wording in the amendments to the lists of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and precursors into compliance with the requirements of legislative drafting techniques. The document does not change the quantitative indicators of substance amounts themselves, but merely corrects the manner of their presentation in the regulatory tables.
**Structure and Main Provisions:**
The Order consists of six points, where the first three points introduce specific adjustments to three separate blocks of changes approved by Order No. 527:
* **Point 1:** concerns narcotic drugs (adjustment of the stamp and changing the plural to the singular in the description of rows).
* **Point 2:** concerns psychotropic substances (adjustment of the stamp and clarification of the reference to the table).
* **Point 3:** concerns precursors (adjustment of the stamp, heading, and clarification of the wording regarding the supplementation of tables).
* **Points 4-6:** define procedural issues (registration, publication, control, and entry into force).
**Important Aspects for Implementation:**
For law enforcement practice, this Order is significant as it ensures the legal clarity of documents determining the criteria for “small,” “large,” and “especially large” amounts of illicit substances. This is critical for the qualification of offenses in the field of drug trafficking. Lawyers and law enforcement officers should note that after this Order comes into force, references to previous versions of amendments to Order No. 188 must be made taking into account the corrected wording to avoid procedural inaccuracies in documents.
