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Section 1: Veterinary pharmaceutical companies and establishments

Article R5142-1 of the French Public Health Code

The following definitions apply 1° Manufacturer: a company comprising one or more veterinary pharmaceutical establishments engaged in the manufacture of veterinary medicinal products other than medicated feedingstuffs, with a view to their wholesale sale, free transfer or use in clinical trials on animals. Manufacturing includes operations relating to the purchase of raw materials and packaging items, production operations, quality control, batch release, as well as the corresponding storage operations, as…

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Article R5142-2 of the French Public Health Code

For medicinal products other than those subject to clinical trials on animals and medicated feedingstuffs, where the manufacturer or importer does not itself operate the business, it may only wholesale or transfer free of charge the medicinal products it manufactures or imports through the intermediary of the operator who carries out these sales or transfer operations. Operators, stockists and wholesale distributors of veterinary medicinal products may only distribute the medicinal…

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Article R5142-3 of the French Public Health Code

The companies mentioned in article R. 5142-1 may export the veterinary medicinal products they sell, transfer free of charge or distribute outside national territory. Exports by these companies to other Member States of the European Union or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area may only be made to natural or legal persons authorised to carry out similar activities or authorised to supply these medicinal products or, in…

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Article R5142-4 of the French Public Health Code

The procedures for submitting and examining applications for authorisation to open, for modification of initial authorisations and for transfer of authorisations to open, as provided for in articles R. 5142-5 to R. 5142-7, R. 5142-9, R. 5142-10, R. 5142-13 and R. 5142-14, as well as the content of the file attached to the application, are laid down, on a proposal from the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité…

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Article R5142-5 of the French Public Health Code

Authorisation to open a veterinary pharmaceutical establishment is granted to the company to which it belongs by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail, after investigation by the competent inspectorate and after obtaining the opinion, as appropriate, of the competent central council or councils of the Ordre national des pharmaciens or the competent regional council or councils of the Ordre…

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Article R5142-6 of the French Public Health Code

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail shall inform the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé of his decision within fifteen days when the authorisation concerns an establishment comprising all or part of the premises and equipment making up an establishment authorised by the latter mentioned in 1° or 2° of…

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Article R5142-7 of the French Public Health Code

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail shall inform the Prefect of the département in which the establishment is located of his decision within fifteen days when the authorisation concerns an establishment mentioned in 11° or 12° of article R. 5142-1 comprising all or part of the premises and equipment making up an establishment approved or registered in application of…

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Article R5142-8 of the French Public Health Code

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail will notify the applicant of his decision within ninety days from the date of receipt of the complete application. For establishments engaged in the manufacture or import of veterinary medicinal products, the manufacture or import of medicinal products undergoing clinical trials and the manufacture or import of medicated feedingstuffs, silence on the part…

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Article R5142-9 of the French Public Health Code

The prior authorisation referred to in the second paragraph of article L. 5142-2 is required for the following substantial changes: -carrying out a new pharmaceutical activity within the meaning of article R. 5142-1; -the manufacture or import of a new category of veterinary medicinal product; the manufacture or import of a new pharmaceutical form; – the implementation of a new product; the manufacture or import of a new category of…

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Article R5142-10 of the French Public Health Code

Where the initial authorisation was granted after the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé or the Prefect had been informed in accordance with the procedure laid down in Articles R. 5142-6 or R. 5142-7, they will be informed of the amendment within fifteen days.

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