Research involving the human person relating to a medicinal product is understood to mean any research relating to one or more medicinal products not falling within the scope of Article 1 of Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use and repealing Directive 2001/20/ EC. They are intended to identify or verify the clinical, pharmacological and other pharmacodynamic effects of these medicinal products or to identify any adverse effects, or to study their absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination, with the aim of ensuring their safety or efficacy. The decision to prescribe one or more medicinal products is independent of the decision to include the person undergoing the research in the field of research.
Research involving the human subject and relating to a medical device is understood to mean any clinical investigation of one or more medical devices with the aim of determining or confirming their performance or highlighting their undesirable effects and assessing whether these constitute risks in relation to the performance assigned to the device.
Other categories of research are defined, where necessary, by order of the Minister for Health or by decision of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé for research falling within its remit.