When an application for authorisation concerns a generic medicinal product of a reference medicinal product which has not been authorised in France, the applicant must indicate the Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area in which this reference medicinal product is or has been authorised. In this case, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé asks the competent authority of this State to confirm that the reference medicinal product is or has been authorised and to send him the full composition of the medicinal product and, where appropriate, any relevant documentation.
This procedure only applies when there is no reference medicinal product authorised or which has been authorised in France.
When a Member State of the European Community or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area receives an application for a marketing authorisation mentioning a reference medicinal product which is or has been authorised in France and asks the Director General of the Agency to confirm that the reference medicinal product is or has been authorised, the Director General will reply to the State which forwarded the application within one month and will send it the full composition of the medicinal product and, where appropriate, any relevant documentation.