A method for managing containers for pharmaceutical or veterinary use in a manufacturing line includes providing a container unit with seats, each seat containing a respective container, each container having a container data carrier containing data of the respective container, and the container unit having a container unit data carrier to contain the data of the containers, each container data carrier and the container unit data carrier being a RFID chip allowing data to be read, written and changed; reading the container data carrier of each container; writing the container unit data carrier with the data of the read container data carriers; and changing the data written in the container unit data carrier if a status change occurs in the data contained in the container data carriers, wherein the status change occurs any time the container data carriers are written or added with data along the manufacturing line.