Part five: Health products

I. – Failure to comply with the conditions set out in article L. 5139-2 relating to the production, manufacture, transport, import and export, possession, supply, transfer, acquisition and use of micro-organisms and toxins included on the list provided for in article L. 5139-1 is punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €375,000. II. – The penalties referred to in the previous paragraph are increased to seven years’ imprisonment…

Attempts to commit the offences referred to in article L. 5439-1 shall be subject to the same penalties.

For the criminal offences mentioned in this chapter, natural persons are also liable to the following additional penalties: 1° Display or dissemination of the decision handed down, under the conditions and subject to the penalties provided for in article 131-35 of the Criminal Code ; 2° Temporary or permanent disqualification from exercising one or more professions governed by this Code, from exercising a commercial or industrial profession, from directing, administering,…

Legal entities declared criminally liable, under the conditions set out in article 121-2 of the French Criminal Code, for the offences set out in this chapter shall incur, in addition to the fine set out in article 131-38 of the same Code, the penalties set out in article 131-39, 2° to 9° of that Code.