Australia - National Approach on Materials and Equipment Used in Illicit Drug Manufacture
Since 2010, Regulation 4G of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 prohibits the importation of tablet presses into Australia unless permission has been granted. Tablet presses are defined as manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic equipment that can be used to compact or mould powdered or granular solids, or semi-solid material, to produce coherent solid tablets. Regulation 4G does not explicitly state whether the import control for tablet presses includes parts, components or incomplete machines. The import control at the federal level complemented state and territory controls that prohibited the possession of tablet presses without a legitimate reason.
Source: Discussion Paper: Tablet Press Import Control
The Code of Practice for Supply Diversion into Illicit Drug Manufacture (2008) offers best practice principles to assist chemical manufacturers, importers and distributors and scientific equipment and instrument suppliers in the prevention of diversion of chemicals and scientific equipment into illicit drug manufacture, and to co-operate with government and law enforcement to that end. Industry obligations include sales monitoring, record keeping (through end user declaration) and notification of 'suspicious' inquiries or orders. When suspicious circumstances are noted, they are to be reported as soon as practicable and in any case prior to dispatch/collection of the substances.
Source: Code of Practice for Supply Diversion into Illicit Drug Manufacture