[Communicated to the Council Official No.: 1934.XI. and the Members of the League.] C. 462. M. 198. (O.S.B./Statement 1935.) Geneva, October 17th, 1934. LEAGUE OF NATIONS CONVENTION FOR LIMITING THE MANUFACTURE AND REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS OF JULY 1 3 t h , 1 9 3 1 ESTIMATED WORLD REQUIREMENTS OF DANGEROUS DRUGS IN 1935 Statement issued by the Supervisory Body under Article 5 Series of League of Nations Publications^ XI. OPIUM AND OTHER d a n g e r o u s d r u g s 1934. XI. 5- No Officiel: C.462.M.198.1934.XI. (Communiqué au Conseil (O.S.B./Etat. 1935). et aux Membres de la ERRATA. S ociété. ) Genève, le 12 mars 1935. SOCIETE DES NATIONS CONVENTION POUR LIMITER LA FABRICATION ET REGLEMENTER LA DISTRIBUTION DES STUPEFIANTS DU 13 JUILLET 1931 EVALUATIONS DES BESOINS DU MONDE EN DROGUES NUISIBLES EN 1935 Etat dressé par l’Organe de contrôle en vertu de l’article 5. ERRATA Tableau III Page 59. Nicaragua, Col. IV, lire: + 100 grammes. 64. Suisse, Col. I (y compris la marge le cas échéant), insérer: 1 kg. LEAGUE OF NATIONS CONVENTION FOR LIMITING THE MANUFACTURE AND REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS OF JULY 13th, 1931 ESTIMATED WORLD REQUIREMENTS OF DANGEROUS DRUGS IN 1935 Statement issued by the Supervisory Body under Article 5. ERRATA Table III Page 59. Nicaragua, Col. IV, read: + 100 grammes. 64. Switzerland, Col. I (including margin, if any), insert: 1 kg. Série de Publications de la Société des Nations XI. OPIUM ET AUTRES DROGUES NUISIBLES 1934. XL 5. Errata. _____ — ■ 2 — The Supervisory Body is constituted under Article 5 of the Convention as follows : Appointed by the Advisory Committee of the League of Nations on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs : Sir Malcolm D e l e v in g n e , K.C.B., K.C.V.O. (President). Appointed by the Permanent Central Opium Board : Mr. Herbert L. M a y . Appointed b y the Health Committee of the League of Nations: Professor M. T iffeneau. Appointed by the Office International d’Hygiène Publique : Dr. H. Ca r r iè r e . Extract from Article 5 of the Convention : " 7. After examination by the Supervisory Body as provided in paragraph 6 above of the estimates furnished, and after the determination by that Body as provided in Article 2 of the estimates for each country or territory on behalf of which no estimates have been furnished, the Supervisory Body shall forward, not later than November ist in each year, through the intermediary of the Secretary-General, to all the Members of the League of Nations and non-member States referred to in Article 27, a statement containing the estimates for each country or territory, and, so far as the Supervisory Body may consider necessary, an account of any explanations given or required in accordance with paragraph 6 above, and any observations which the Supervisory Body may desire to make in respect of any such estimate or explanation, or request for an explanation.” — 3 — ESTIMATED WORLD REQUIREMENTS OF DANGEROUS DRUGS IN 1935. St a t e m e n t is s u e d b y t h e S u p e r v is o r y B o d y u n d e r A r t ic l e 5. The Supervisory Body, constituted under paragraph 6 of Article 5 of the Limitation Convention of 1931, having examined the estimates furnished by Governments of the requirements of their respective territories in 1935, and having framed estimates for territories in respect of which estimates were not so furnished,1 presents in the tables annexed (II and III) a statement of the estimates for each country and territory as required by paragraph 7 of that article. Estimates were furnished in respect of (1) fifty-four sovereign States, including fourteen States which are not parties to the Convention;2 (2) ninety-nine colonies, protectorates, overseas territories and territories under suzerainty or mandate. Estimates have been framed by the Supervisory Body in respect of (1) fifteen sovereign States and (2) nine colonies, etc., in respect of which estimates were not furnished. Ten of the States were in Central and South America. The following table summarises in respect of each drug included in the Convention the world requirements for 1935, as shown by the estimates so furnished or framed. 1 Countries, colonies, protectorates and overseas territories, or territories under suzerainty or mandate, for which fy,_eS 1JIiates have been received and for which estimates have been framed by the Supervisory Body are printed in ita ics throughout this document. M Zeal ri^a UC^ Arabia, Denmark, Estonia, Abyssinia, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Japan, Latvia, Luxemburg, ew a 1 Paraguay, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Union of South Africa. * 935 (F.) 795 (A.) 11/34. Imp. Kundig. — 4 — Table I. TOTAL ESTIMATED WORLD REQUIREMENTS OF EACH DRUG IN THE YEAR 1935 FOR MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES. EXPLANATORY NOTE. 1. The estimates submitted by Governments and incorporated in the tables contained in this document have been drawn up on the basis of the Statistical Form B (L) prepared by the Permanent Central Opium Board in accordance with the Convention. Reference may therefore be made to this form—which is annexed to the statement—for anv necessary explanations or definitions of terms used in the tables. 2. The expression, " The amount required for use as such ", means the amount of the drug which will be used in the form of the basic alkoloid or in the form of salts or of medical preparations made from the base or salts, and excludes any amounts of the drug which will be converted into other drugs. 3. The morphine indicated as required for conversion (column 3) is intended for the production of the diacetyl- morphine, codeine, dionine, dilaudide and peronine shown in column 2. Part of the requirements as regards codeine are met, not by conversion from morphine, but by the extraction directly from opium of the percentage of free codeine which it contains. With regard to the products made from the other drugs shown in column 3, it may be noted that thebaine may be converted, for instance, into eucodal, dicodide and acedicone, and codeine into paracodine, eucodal and dicodide. 4. The grand total for each drug as given in column 5 represents the outside limit for the world manufacture of the drug during the year : but the figure is liable to modification, during the course of the year, as a result of supplementary estimates. The amount, however, of each drug which may legitimately be manufactured during the year may be less than this grand total, since, under Articles 6 and 7, the manufacturing countries may manulacture, for domestic consumption, for conversion and for the replenishment of their stocks, only the quantity of the drug which they actually require within the limits of their estimates. The quantity of any drug which a manufacturing country may manufacture for export is limited to the amount required for the execution during the year of orders received, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention. The total is also liable to modification as a result of deductions to be made in pursuance of Articles 7 a n d 8. I 2 3 4 5 D r u g Amount required Amount required Amount required G r a n d T otal (in terms of the basic anhydrous for use as such for conversion to replenish stocks (Col. 2 + 3 + 4) alkaloid) K g . gr- Kg. gr. Kg. gr- Kg. gr. M o rp h in e ......................... 9 269 203 25 311 838* 542 387 35 123 438* Diacetylmorphine (Heroin)..................... 1 093 69 — 64 667 I 028 402 Methylmorphine (C odeine)................. 25 318 998 950 I 785 763 28 054 761 Ethylmorphine (D io n in e)................. 3 015 296 193 814 3 209 n o Dihydrohydrooxycodeinone (E ucodal)................. 227 252 • 18 139 245 391 Dihydrocodeinone (Dicodide) .... 215 l8 0 • 13 468 228 648 Dihydromorphinone (Dilaudide) .... 84 394 9 581 93 975 Acetyldihydrocodeinone (Acedicone) .... 54 780 4 278 59 58 Benzylmorphine O O (Peronine) .... 20 70 •• *<1 Morphine-N-Oxide (Genomorphine) 8 309 40 8 349 T h e b a in e ......................... 109 295 250 200 359 495 C ocaine............................. 5 493 62 f • 340 519 5833 58i t * These figures do not include any quantity of morphine required for conversion into codeine, dionine and diacetyl- morphine in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for which no conversion estimate has been received. The amounts of codeine, dionine and diacetylmorphine estimated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as required in the years 1934 and 1935 are as follows : 1934 1935 Kg. Kg. C o d e i n e ....................................................................................... 4 444 4 428 D i o n i n e ....................................................................................... 735 860 D ia c e ty lm o rp h in e .................................................................... 171 157 If any considerable part of the quantities for 1935 is to be produced in the country by conversion of morphine, the world total of morphine requirements would be increased by several tons. t Including for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics the following estimates for " cocaine and other similar anaesthetic substances” : 1934, 1 226 kg.; 1935, 1 245 kg. The amounts of cocaine manufactured and consumed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in I932 anc* w ere : Manufacture Consumption Kg. Kg. 1 93 2 .......................................................................................................... 2 69 287 1933 ........................................................................... 85 86 These estimates are the subject of discussion between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Supervisor) B ody.