When a marketing authorisation is granted for a biological medicinal product which may be identified as a similar biological medicinal product, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité des médicaments et des produits de santé :
1° Identifies it as a similar biological medicinal product, mentioning the corresponding reference medicinal product, by means of a decision, which may include recommendations and warnings, and which he notifies to the holder of the marketing authorisation granted for this similar biological medicinal product;
2° Informs, within one month of this notification, the holder of the marketing authorisation for the reference biological medicinal product of the granting of a marketing authorisation for the similar biological medicinal product mentioned in 1°.
At the end of a period of sixty days following receipt of the information by the holder of the authorisation referred to in 2°, the Director General of the Agency enters the similar biological medicinal product on the reference list of similar biological groups.