The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail shall notify the interested party of his decision with regard to the proven or potential risk to human or animal health within sixty days from the date of receipt of the complete application referred to in Article R. 5141-123-9 .
The period mentioned in the previous paragraph is reduced to thirty days for applications submitted under article R. 5141-123-10-1.
The time limit for examining the application for authorisation to import a proprietary medicinal product in parallel is suspended, until receipt of the information requested, if the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail requests additional information from the applicant which would be necessary to examine the application or if the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail requests additional information from the competent health authority of the State from which the proprietary medicinal product originates.
Silence on the part of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail shall constitute authorisation to import on expiry of the time limits mentioned in this article.