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Book IV: Criminal and financial penalties

Article R5411-1 of the French Public Health Code

Public health inspecting pharmacists and inspectors from regional health agencies who are pharmacists are authorised and sworn to investigate and record the offences referred to in article L. 5411-1 under the conditions set out in articles R. 1312-2 and R. 1312-4 to R. 1312-7.

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Article R5412-1 of the French Public Health Code

For the application of Article L. 5412-1, the inspectors referred to in Article R. 5313-1 are authorised to investigate and establish criminal offences by a decision of the Director General of the Agency, specifying the name, capacity and qualifications of the agents concerned. The authorisation lasts for two years. It may be renewed. Authorised agents take the following oath before the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the head office of…

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Article R5413-1 of the French Public Health Code

Medical public health inspectors and inspectors from regional health agencies who are doctors are authorised and sworn to investigate and record the offences mentioned in article L. 5413-1 under the conditions set out in articles R. 1312-2 and R. 1312-4 to R. 1312-7.

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Article R5421-1 of the French Public Health Code

Any doctor, dental surgeon, midwife or pharmacist who fails to comply with the obligation to report immediately any serious adverse reaction suspected to be due to a medicinal product or a product within the meaning of 2° of article R. 5121-152 of which they are aware is punishable by a fifth-class fine.

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Article R5431-1 of the French Public Health Code

Failure by the responsible person, as defined in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products, to make the information provided for in Article 21 of the same Regulation available to the public is punishable by a fifth-class fine.

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Article R5431-2 of the French Public Health Code

The making available on the market, by a distributor as defined in e of paragraph 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products, of a cosmetic product that does not comply with the rules laid down in terms of labelling, linguistic requirements or minimum durability date by paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the…

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Article R5433-1 of the French Public Health Code

Any manufacturer, importer or distributor of reagents is liable to a fine of the fifth class: 1° Placing a reagent on the market, whether free of charge or against payment, without having registered it with the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé; 2° Failing to notify the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé of any change affecting the elements of…

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Article R5433-3 of the French Public Health Code

A manufacturer, importer or distributor who has registered a reagent is liable to a fine of the fifth class for failing to forward to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé any information on unexpected or undesirable effects, or on shortcomings or errors, likely to be due to this reagent and of which he has become aware.

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