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Article L5121-1-3 of the French Public Health Code

Any holder of a marketing authorisation for a medicinal product or any operator of such a medicinal product is required, within one year of the promulgation of Act 2011-2012 of 29 December 2011 on reinforcing the safety of medicinal products and health products, to make available to the public on its website the designation of the active ingredients of this medicinal product according to their international non-proprietary name recommended by the World Health Organisation or, failing this, their name in the European or French pharmacopoeia.

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Article L5121-1-3
Tout titulaire d’une autorisation de mise sur le marché d’un médicament ou tout exploitant de ce médicament est tenu, dans un délai d’une année à compter de la promulgation de la loi n° 2011-2012 du 29 décembre 2011 relative au renforcement de la sécurité sanitaire du médicament et des produits de santé, de mettre à la disposition du public sur son site internet la désignation des principes actifs de ce médicament selon leur dénomination commune internationale recommandée par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé ou, à défaut, leur dénomination dans la pharmacopée européenne ou française.

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