The Director General of the Agency may automatically vary, suspend or cancel a registration in the same cases and according to the same procedures as those laid down for a marketing authorisation in Article R. 5121-47. It shall immediately inform the European Medicines Agency.
Decisions to refuse, vary, suspend or withdraw registration must state the reasons on which they are based. They may only be taken after the registration holder has been invited to submit his observations. Refusal decisions are notified, together with the reasons, to the European Commission and, at their request, to the other Member States of the European Union or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The period of suspension may not exceed one year.