Section 2: Other poisonous substances and preparations

Containers or packaging containing narcotics and used for their import or export, transport or possession must bear a label of a size appropriate to their volume, affixed in such a way that it cannot be accidentally detached. This label bears, in indelible and legible black characters, the following information: 1° For a substance, a plant or a part of a plant: the international non-proprietary name recommended by the World Health…

Substances or preparations and plants or parts of plants classified as narcotics are kept in locked cabinets or premises containing nothing else. The physical conditions under which these substances and preparations are held are laid down, on a proposal from the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, by order of the Minister for Health. Any theft or misappropriation is reported without…

The persons mentioned from 1° to 5° of the I of article R. 5132-76 may only acquire narcotic substances and preparations classified as narcotics in an establishment holding the authorisation provided for in the 1st paragraph of article R. 5132-75. The acquisition or transfer of narcotics is entered in a special register or recorded by a specific computer system meeting the following conditions: a) It must not be possible to…

Persons who manufacture, process or divide narcotics are required to record, at the time of the operation and thereafter, in the register provided for in article R. 5132-81 or to record using the computer system provided for in the same article : 1° The operations carried out ; 2° The nature and quantity of the narcotics used; 3° The nature and quantity of the products obtained; 4° The losses resulting…

Persons holding the authorisation provided for in article R. 5132-74 are required to draw up an annual statement indicating for each narcotic drug: 1° The quantities received ; 2° The quantities used for manufacture or processing, indicating the nature and quantity of the products obtained as well as any losses resulting from these operations; 3° Quantities disposed of; 4° Year-end stocks, including stocks of products in the process of being…

The production, manufacture, transport, import, export, possession, offer, transfer, acquisition or use of substances or preparations, plants or parts of plants listed in the schedules of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 30 March 1961 or the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 21 February 1971, as well as products containing such substances or preparations, plants or parts of plants may be prohibited, on a proposal from the Director General…

The production, manufacture, transport, import, export, possession, offer, transfer, acquisition or use of khat and preparations containing or made from khat are prohibited. Exemptions to the above provisions may be granted by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé for research and control purposes.

I.-The production, including cultivation, manufacture, transport, import, export, possession, offer, transfer, acquisition and use of the following are prohibited: 1° Cannabis, its plant and resin, products containing them or those obtained from cannabis, its plant or resin; 2° Natural or synthetic tetrahydrocannabinols, their esters, ethers and salts, as well as salts of the aforementioned derivatives and products containing them. II.The operations mentioned in I may be authorised when they concern…

The cultivation, import, export and use, for industrial and commercial purposes, of varieties of Cannabis sativa L. without narcotic properties or products containing such varieties are authorised by order of the ministers responsible for agriculture, customs, industry and health.

The provisions of this sub-section may be applied, in whole or in part, to substances or preparations, to plants, or to parts of plants containing them which, although not classified as narcotics, are manufactured from narcotics or give rise to the formation of narcotics during their manufacture or, in the case of drug dependence or abuse as defined in article R. 5132-97, may require control at certain stages of their…