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Article L5432-1 of the French Public Health Code

I. – Any failure, in the context of a regulated activity, to comply with the provisions adopted in application of article L. 5132-8 is punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €375,000: 1° Laying down conditions for the production, transport, import, export, possession, supply, transfer, prescription, delivery, acquisition and use of medicinal products, plants, substances or preparations classified as poisonous; 2° Prohibiting transactions relating to these plants or…

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Article L5432-2 of the French Public Health Code

I. – The following offences are punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €375,000: manufacturing, importing, exporting, transporting, offering, transferring, acquiring, possessing, using illegally or obtaining delivery by means of fictitious prescriptions or prescriptions of convenience: 1° Substances, plants or preparations included in lists I and II or classified as psychotropic substances mentioned in article L. 5132-1; 2° Medicinal products mentioned in article L. 5111-1, when these products…

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Article L5432-4 of the French Public Health Code

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,…

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Article L5432-5 of the French Public Health Code

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

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