The authorisation holder shall record any acquisition, transfer, import or export of micro-organisms and toxins or products containing them in a special register or by any appropriate computer system.
This register or these records must be kept for a period of forty years from the date of the last operation mentioned therein in order to be produced at the request of the competent authorities. This period is reduced to ten years for biological samples, anatomical parts or organisms contaminated by micro-organisms and toxins included on the list provided for in article L. 5139-1.
In the event of permanent closure of the establishment or cessation of activity, this register or these records shall be deposited with the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.
The provisions of this article do not apply to medicinal products for human use and veterinary medicinal products containing inactivated or attenuated micro-organisms or toxins, to which the provisions of articles R. 5124-58, R. 5141-140 and R. 5142-50 apply respectively.