Subsection 1: Definition and activities.

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…

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…

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…