An implementation that conforms to the Substance Approval Query SOP Class shall support queries against the Substance Approval Query Information Model described in Section V.6.2.2 using the C-FIND SCP Behavior described in Section V.4.1.3. It shall support all of the Attributes specified in the Information Model.

An implementation that conforms to the Substance Approval Query SOP Class as an SCP shall state in its Conformance Statement how it processes Required and Optional Matching Key Attributes. It shall state how it obtains the values for the Return Key Attributes.

An implementation that conforms to the Substance Approval Query SOP Class as an SCP shall state in its Conformance Statement how it makes use of Specific Character Set (0008,0005) when interpreting queries, performing matching and encoding responses.