Book I: Pharmaceutical products

The requests for approval provided for in Article L. 5122-9 are made according to a timetable and during a period determined by decision of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.

Free samples of medicinal products may only be given to persons authorised to prescribe or dispense medicinal products in the context of in-house pharmacies at their request. These samples may not contain substances classified as psychotropic or narcotic, or to which the narcotic regulations apply in whole or in part. They must be identical to the pharmaceutical specialities concerned and bear the words “free sample”. Samples may not be given…

Persons providing information by canvassing or canvassing for medicinal products must have sufficient scientific knowledge evidenced by diplomas, titles or certificates appearing on a list drawn up by the administrative authority. Employers of the employees mentioned in the first paragraph must also ensure that their knowledge is kept up to date. They must instruct them to report to the company all information relating to the use of the medicinal products…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article L. 5122-11, the following may also engage in the activities defined in the first paragraph of that Article: 1° Persons who were engaged in such activities for at least three years in the ten years prior to 19 January 1994 ; 2° Persons other than those referred to in 1° who were engaged in these activities on 19 January 1994, provided that within four years…

The provisions of articles L. 5122-2, L. 5122-3, the first paragraph of article L. 5122-6, articles L. 5122-7, L. 5122-8, L. 5122-9 and L. 5122-11 are applicable to advertising for generators, kits and precursors.

Advertising or propaganda, in any form whatsoever, relating to objects, devices and methods, presented as favouring the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of diseases, conditions relating to surgical pathology and physiological disorders, the diagnosis or modification of the physical or physiological state, the restoration, correction or modification of organic functions, may be prohibited by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, where it has not been…

The following are defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat: 1° The conditions for granting, suspending or withdrawing the advertising approval provided for in article L. 5122-8 ; 2° The procedures for applying article L. 5122-9 ; 3° The conditions under which free samples of medicinal products may be given to the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 5122-10; 4° (Repealed) ; 5° (Repealed) ; 6° The…