The production, including cultivation, manufacture, transport, import, export, possession, offering, transfer, acquisition or use and, in general, agricultural, craft, commercial and industrial operations relating to substances or preparations and plants or parts of plants classified as narcotics by decision of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé are prohibited, unless expressly authorised.
Where these substances or preparations and these plants or parts of plants are used in veterinary medicine, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé shall seek the opinion of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail prior to his decision.
The authorisation referred to in the first paragraph is granted or withdrawn under the conditions set out in Articles R. 5132-75 to R. 5132-77. The authorisation is also subject to the holder of the authorisation recording the operations in a register allocated for this purpose, which includes in particular the quantities received and transferred. This register is kept at the disposal of the Agency and is sent to it at its request.