Medical devices which comply with the standards applicable to them, transposing the harmonised European standards, the references of which have been published in the Journal officiel de la République française, are presumed to comply with the essential health and safety requirements set out in section 5 of this chapter.
The standards mentioned in the first paragraph include the monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia relating in particular to surgical sutures and to interactions between medicinal products and the materials making up the devices in which these medicinal products are contained.