Section 2: Name and identification of the medicinal product

The name of a medicinal product may be either an invented name or a common or scientific name accompanied by a trade mark or the name of the holder of the marketing authorisation or of the company responsible for exploiting the medicinal product. The invented name may not be confused with the common name.

Without prejudice to the application of legislation relating to trademarks or service marks, the invented name is chosen in such a way as to avoid any confusion with other medicinal products and not to mislead as to the quality or properties of the speciality.

For any medicinal product authorised on the French market, each of its presentations and, where applicable, each common dispensing unit, is allocated a national identification number. This number is allocated by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé in accordance with the allocation procedures and technical specifications that comply with the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 of 2 October…