A pharmaceutical establishment exporting a medicinal product must ask the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé to certify that it holds the authorisation referred to in article L. 5124-3 or, for establishments or organisations manufacturing products referred to in article L. 1243-1 and in 12° and 13° of article L. 5121-1, the authorisation referred to in articles L. 1243-2, L. 4211-8 and L. 4211-9. A non-EU Member State importing a medicinal product may make the same applications.
The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, for public health reasons, prohibit the export of medicinal products which do not have a marketing authorisation as defined in article L. 5121-8 or which are likely to expose the patients concerned to risks which are not proportionate to the expected benefits.
The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé prohibits the export of medicinal products whose marketing authorisation has been suspended or withdrawn for public health reasons or whose marketing authorisation has not been renewed for the same reasons.
Where the exported medicinal product does not have a marketing authorisation, the pharmaceutical establishment exporting it provides the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products with a statement explaining the reasons why this authorisation is not available. The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé communicates these reasons to the Minister for Health of the importing country.