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 refusal of authorisation on expiry of a period of forty-five days from the date of receipt of the complete application referred to in Article R. 5141-123-3.
The period mentioned in the previous paragraph is reduced to twenty days if the application for authorisation relates to the importation of veterinary medicinal products authorised and supplied in a Member State of the European Union.
The time limits mentioned in the first two paragraphs are extended by fifteen days 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 that may be necessary to examine the application, in particular to assess the risk to human or animal health.