Any company or organisation exploiting a medicinal product or a product mentioned in Article R. 5121-150 shall implement a pharmacovigilance system in order to fulfil its pharmacovigilance obligations, and in particular to collect and scientifically evaluate all the information relating to the adverse reactions mentioned in Article R. 5121-151, with a view to preventing and reducing risks and, if necessary, to take appropriate measures.
Any company or organisation exploiting a medicinal product or a product mentioned in Article R. 5121-150 manages a permanent pharmacovigilance system file and makes a copy of this file available within seven days, at the request of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.
An audit of the pharmacovigilance system is carried out and recorded in the permanent pharmacovigilance system file. Based on these results, an action plan must be implemented to remedy the problems identified. Once the corrective measures have been fully implemented, the entries recorded may be deleted.