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Article L1337-5 of the French Public Health Code

The following is punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 euros: 1° Carrying out an activity or using a process, device or substance prohibited under Article L. 1333-4 ; 2° Exposing people beyond the limit values set by the decrees adopted for the application of 3° of Article L. 1333-2; 3° Undertaking or carrying out an activity referred to in Article L. 1333-1 without being the holder…

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Article L1337-6 of the French Public Health Code

The following is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of €7,500: 1° Failing to comply with a formal notice issued pursuant to Article L. 1333-31 ; 2° Failing to communicate, in application of article L. 1333-16 , the information required to update the national file of radioactive sources mentioned in article L. 1333-5.

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Article L1337-9 of the French Public Health Code

The provisions of articles L. 173-5 to L. 173-12 of the Environment Code apply to offences under this chapter. Corporate entities declared criminally liable, under the conditions provided for by’article 121-2 of the Criminal Code, for the offences defined in article L. 1337-8 are liable, in addition to a fine in accordance with article 131-38 of the French Penal Code, to a ban on the sale of the product advertised…

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Article L1338-1 of the French Public Health Code

Subject to articles L. 3114-5 and L. 3114-7, a decree, issued after consultation with the Haut Conseil de la santé publique, the Conseil national de la protection de la nature and the Conseil national d’orientation de la politique sanitaire animale et végétale, sets the list of plant and animal species whose proliferation constitutes a threat to human health and defines the measures that may be taken to prevent their appearance…

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Article L1338-2 of the French Public Health Code

An order by the ministers responsible for health, the environment and agriculture may limit or prohibit the introduction, transport, use, offering for sale, sale or purchase, in any form whatsoever, of a species appearing on the list established by the decree referred to in article L. 1338-1.

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Article L1338-3 of the French Public Health Code

Any distributor or seller of plants likely to be harmful to human health is required to inform the purchaser, prior to the conclusion of the sale, of the risks to human health and, where appropriate, of the means of protecting against them. An order of the ministers responsible for health and consumer affairs, issued after consultation with the Haut Conseil de la santé publique (High Council for Public Health) and…

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Article L1338-4 of the French Public Health Code

I.-Infringements of the regulations adopted in application of articles L. 1338-1 and L. 1338-2 are investigated and recorded by officers and agents of the judicial police in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure and by the agents mentioned in articles L. 1421-1 and L. 1435-7, State agents approved and commissioned by the Minister for Agriculture, the agents mentioned inarticle L. 172-1 of the Environmental Code and the environmental inspectors…

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