When the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail considers that the variation, suspension or withdrawal of a marketing authorisation which he has granted following a mutual recognition or decentralised procedure is necessary for the protection of human or animal health or the environment, he shall immediately inform the European Medicines Agency for the application of the Community arbitration procedure.
In exceptional cases, where the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail decides as a matter of urgency to suspend or withdraw a medicinal product from the market in order to protect human or animal health or the environment pending a final decision under the Community arbitration procedure, he shall inform the European Commission and the other Member States of the European Union of the reasons for this measure no later than the first working day following his decision.