Precursors
The new Precursors Monitoring Act (GÜG) [6] entered into force on 19th March 2009. This Act aims to prevent and prosecute the abusive diversion and use of so-called precursors for the purpose of the illicit manufacture of narcotics. The reason for the revision of the Precursors Monitoring Act was a fundamental restructuring and amendment in 2005 of the underlying EU law governing precursors which now regulates major parts of the former GÜG on the European level. Therefore, the new version of the Act only complements three directly applicable EC Regulations by supplying the necessary regulations on regulatory control and monitoring of the trade in precursors as well as criminal and administrative offences.