I.-The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé issues the authorisation to open provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 5124-3 in accordance with the procedure set out in Article R. 5124-6 and within the time limits set out in this Article.
II.-The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé verifies that the dossier referred to in Article R. 5124-5 is complete.The Director General of the Agency will check that the dossier referred to in Article R. 5124-5 is complete and, if necessary, will request that the applicant for authorisation to open produce any missing documents, within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt. If, on expiry of this period, the Director General of the Agency has not contacted the applicant, the application is deemed to be admissible.
The decision of the Director General of the Agency rejecting the application in the absence of transmission of the missing documents to the file shall state the reasons on which it is based and indicate the appeal channels and deadlines.
III. – The Director General of the Agency shall examine the application and shall inform the applicant of the reasons for the decision.The Director General of the Agency will examine the application, supplemented where necessary, and will notify the applicant of his decision, by any means giving a date certain on the date of receipt of this decision, within ninety days of the date of receipt of the application.
He may ask the applicant to provide any additional information. The period referred to in the first paragraph is then suspended from the date of notification to the pharmacist in charge referred to in Article L. 5124-2 of the request for additional information by the Director General of the Agency, until receipt of the information requested.
The Director General of the Agency may also, within the period referred to in the first paragraph of this III, carry out an inspection in order to ensure the accuracy of the information provided by the applicant.
IV.-For pharmaceutical establishments dependent on companies or organisations mentioned in 1° and 2° of Article R. 5124-2, silence on the part of the Director General of the Agency shall be deemed to constitute refusal of authorisation on expiry of the period mentioned in the first paragraph of III.
For pharmaceutical establishments dependent on companies or organisations mentioned in 3° to 15° of Article R. 5124-2, silence on the part of the Director General of the Agency shall be deemed to constitute tacit authorisation on expiry of the period mentioned in the first paragraph of III.
When the application for authorisation submitted by the wholesale distributor referred to in 14° of Article R. 5124-2 is made in the exercise of the tasks provided for in the last paragraph of Article L. 1413-1, the period provided for in II is reduced to ten days and the period provided for in the first paragraph of III is reduced to thirty days.