Part five: Health products

The following is punishable by three years’ imprisonment and a fine of €45,000: 1° Directly administering to an animal a veterinary medicinal product intended for the manufacture of medicated feedingstuffs in breach of Article 5(2)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2019/4 of 11 December 2018; 2° Delivering a veterinary medicinal product intended for the manufacture of medicated feedingstuffs to a person other than a manufacturer of medicated feedingstuffs or an intermediate product…

I.-A fine of €37,500 is imposed on the companies mentioned in Article L. 5142-1 for offering or providing benefits, in kind or in cash, to the professionals mentioned in Article L. 5143-2, the groups mentioned in Article L. 5143-6, the professionals mentioned in Article L. 235-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code and practising on-farm mixing within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2019/4 of 11 December 2018 or the…

The manufacture, distribution, advertising, offer for sale, sale, import and export of falsified medicinal products defined in article L. 5111-3 for veterinary use are punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €375,000. These penalties are increased to seven years’ imprisonment and a fine of €750,000 when: 1° The falsified medicinal product is dangerous to animal or human health or to the environment; 2° The offences provided for in…

I.-The administrative authority may, as long as the public prosecution has not been initiated and after having obtained the agreement of the public prosecutor, compromise on the prosecution of contraventions and offences provided for and punished by this chapter and the texts taken for their application. II.- This option does not apply to offences punishable by a prison sentence of three years or more and to offences of the first…