For the medicinal products of major therapeutic interest mentioned in article L. 5111-4 , marketing authorisation holders and pharmaceutical companies exploiting medicinal products draw up and implement shortage management plans, the purpose of which is, in the interest of patients, to prevent and remedy any stock shortages.
Marketing authorisation holders and pharmaceutical companies exploiting medicinal products draw up and implement the shortage management plans provided for in the first paragraph for the vaccines mentioned in b of 6° of article L. 5121-1 , the list of which is set by order of the Minister for Health.
Marketing authorisation holders and pharmaceutical companies exploiting medicinal products declare to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé the list of medicinal products for which they are drawing up shortage management plans as provided for in this article.
The decree provided for in article L. 5121-34 defines the characteristics of these medicinal products and an order of the Minister for Health, issued after consultation with the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products, specifies the therapeutic classes to which they belong.