The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation vide its notification dated 18th December 2020 has allowed the submission of self-attested documents along with an undertaking that the applicant will submit the notarized/apostilled documents with legal signature after normalization of the situation in the light of COVID-19 or within 4 months whichever is earlier.
The decision came after the CDSCO received representation about difficulties in submission of a notary, apostilled, and embassy attestation of regulatory documents such as power of attorney, FSC, manufacturing license with legal signature, etc due to the COVID-19 pandemic.