Classification in the category of medicinal products subject to initial hospital prescription has the following effects:
1° The initial prescription of the medicinal product is reserved :
a) To a doctor, dental surgeon or midwife who meets the conditions laid down in Book I of Part IV of this Code, as well as in I of article 60 of law no. 99-641 of 27 July 1999 creating universal health cover and who is practising in a public or private health establishment or in a health cooperation grouping authorised, under article L. 6133-7, to carry out the tasks of a health establishment, or, subject, in these cases, to his marketing authorisation, his early access authorisation under 1° of II of article L. 5121-12-12-1 or the compassionate access authorisation under II of article L. 5121-12-1 or the compassionate prescription framework under III of article L. 5121-12-1 or its import authorisation so provides, in a blood establishment authorised to dispense medicinal products to patients being treated there, in application of the provisions of article L. 1223-1, or in a centre for addiction care, support and prevention or in a free information, screening and diagnosis centre provided for in article L. 3121-2 ;
b) A doctor meeting the same conditions, strictly within the framework of the activity he or she carries out in a duly authorised cosmetic surgery facility;
c) In public health establishments, to any other person authorised to prescribe, acting under the responsibility of a department manager or, if delegated by the latter, a manager of an internal structure of the department, excluding functional units;
2° After this initial prescription, the treatment may be renewed by any prescriber under the conditions of ordinary law. The renewal prescription, when written by a prescriber other than those authorised to write the first prescription, contains the same information as the initial prescription. If necessary, it may include a change in the dosage or duration of treatment.