When an application for authorisation concerns a generic veterinary medicinal product of a reference veterinary medicinal product which has not been authorised in France but which has been authorised in another Member State of the European Union, the applicant must indicate the Member State in which this reference veterinary medicinal product is or has been authorised. In this case, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail asks the competent authority of this State to confirm that the reference medicinal product is or has been authorised and to send him the full composition of this veterinary medicinal product as well as any relevant documentation.
When a Member State of the European Union receives an application for a marketing authorisation mentioning a reference veterinary medicinal product which is or has been authorised in France, it asks the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail to confirm that the reference veterinary medicinal product is or has been authorised, the latter replies to the State which forwarded the application within a period of one month and sends it the full composition of the said medicinal product as well as any relevant documentation.