I.-The Ministers responsible for health and social security, in the case of a medicinal product mentioned in 2° of Article R. 5126-61, or the Director General of the Agency, in the case of a medicinal product mentioned in 3° of this article, will inform the holder of the authorisation, the company or the organisation responsible for its operation or parallel distribution of their intention to deregister this medicinal product, by any means giving a certain date to the receipt of this information.
II.- The holder, company or organisation has one month from the receipt of the above information to submit its observations.The proprietor, company or organisation has a period of one month from receipt of the above information to submit its observations. In urgent cases, this period may be reduced to eight days.
III – If the registration is cancelled, this takes effect at the end of a period of six months from the end of the one-month period mentioned in II, except in the case of registration, before the end of this six-month period, of the medicinal product on the list provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 162-17 of the Social Security Code. In this case, deletion takes place on the date of publication of the decree making the entry.