If the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé remains silent for a period of forty-five days from the date of receipt of the complete application and dossier referred to in Articles R. 5121-120 and R. 5121-121, authorisation of the parallel import will be refused. This time limit is extended by fifteen days if the Director General of the Agency requests additional information from the applicant which may be necessary to examine the application.
When the examination of the application requires information to be obtained from the competent health authority of the State of origin of the medicinal product, the time limits mentioned in the previous paragraph are suspended until this information is communicated to the Director General of the Agency.