The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé submits to its control a sample of each batch of the substance which, if used separately from the medical device in which it is incorporated as an integral part, is likely to be considered as a blood-derived medicinal product, except in the case of a batch originating from another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and having been controlled by a laboratory designated for this purpose by that State. This inspection may concern either the bulk product and the finished product, or only one of them. The inspection must be carried out within sixty days of receipt of the sample.
Each batch of the substance referred to in the first paragraph must have obtained a certificate of release issued by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé or a laboratory designated for this purpose by a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.