NDA current fee schedule, reviewed for 2026, in USD.
8 fee lines100% exact amountscurrency USDFX rates 2026-09-17reviewed 2026-09-16
| Fee line | Official amount | USD equivalent | Frequency | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application for registration of imported surgical instruments and appliances Schedule Part 1 item 1(e). The fee for first registration of an imported device. | USD 1500 | $1,500 | Per application | Verified |
| Application for registration of locally manufactured surgical instruments and appliances Schedule Part 1 item 1(f). The same register entry as an imported device, at a lower fee. | USD 200 | $200 | Per application | Verified |
| Retention of imported surgical instruments and appliances on the Register Schedule Part 1 item 2(e). Registration is not perpetual: the device stays on the Register only while retention is paid. | USD 200 | $200 | Per year | Verified |
| Retention of locally manufactured surgical instruments and appliances on the Register Schedule Part 1 item 2(f). | USD 100 | $100 | Per year | Verified |
| Major amendment of an application to register an imported surgical instrument or appliance Schedule Part 3. A notification of amendment is charged separately at a lower amount. | USD 500 | $500 | Per amendment | Verified |
| Minor amendment of an application to register an imported surgical instrument or appliance Schedule Part 3. | USD 200 | $200 | Per amendment | Verified |
| Notification of amendment Schedule Part 3. The cheapest post-registration change route. | USD 50 | $50.00 | Per notification | Verified |
| Examination of surgical instruments and appliances by the Authority in the course of performing its functions Schedule Part 8 item 1(c). Where analysis is performed in a laboratory not owned by the Authority, the cost is the cost of testing plus 10%. | USD 1000 | $1,000 | Per batch | Verified |
Government fees only — service and testing costs are separate- The 2025 Regulations came into force on 1 October 2025 and revoked the National Drug Policy and Authority (Fees) Regulations, 2022 (S.I. 5 of 2022). They were made on 9 September 2025 under section 61 of the National Drug Policy and Authority Act and published as S.I. 2025 No. 67 in Uganda Gazette No. 72, Volume CXVIII of 17 September 2025.
- The tariff differentiates an imported from a locally manufactured device, not by risk class: no class-based fee head appears in Part 1, so both published bands carry the same spread of USD 200 to USD 1500 for first registration.
- Amounts were read by OCR from the scanned gazette PDF; the fee figures are legible but the surrounding table layout in the OCR text is not reliable.
- Fees are non-refundable whether or not the application succeeds and are payable when the application is made; NDA will not receive an application for which the prescribed fee is unpaid.
- An amendment of an application before registration is 10% of the applicable fee, and fast tracking is charged at 300% of the applicable fee. Both are percentages of another fee rather than published amounts and are excluded from the details.
- The fast-tracking head in Part 1 covers fast tracking of applications for registration of drugs only; no separate fast-track registration fee for surgical instruments and appliances appears in Part 1.
- Uganda shilling heads in the same instrument, such as the wholesale licence for surgical instruments and appliances and the inspection fee of UGX 3,500,000 per facility, are excluded from this record, which publishes the US-dollar registration tariff only.
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Exact amounts verified against the NDA fee schedule · full review 2026-09-16 · row IDs are stable — cite as government-fees:uganda:registration-imported-device