The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé has a period of four months to evaluate the information provided.
At the end of these maximum four months, when, in application of the last paragraph of I of Article L. 1245-5, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé is considering prohibiting the departure from national territory of an element or product mentioned in Article R. 1245-1 to a Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, he shall first notify his intention and the reasons for it, relating to the risk associated with the quality or safety of the component or product or the inadequacy of the data, to the establishment or body planning to carry out this operation.
The latter has one month to submit its observations.
Prohibition decisions must state the reasons on which they are based. They are notified by the Director General of the Agency to the Minister responsible for customs and to the establishment or organisation requesting the operation.
Any changes to the information submitted in the file provided for in Article R. 1245-17 and relating to the products or their preparation and storage processes which are likely to have an impact on the quality or safety of the product are sent to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and to the Agence de la biomédecine. They are assessed under the same conditions.