Paragraph 2: Issue.

Pharmacists are only authorised to dispense these medicines for the first time on presentation of a prescription less than three months old. List I medicinal products may only be renewed if the prescriber gives a written indication specifying the number of renewals or the duration of treatment. List II medicinal products may be renewed if the prescriber has not expressly forbidden this. In all cases, the renewal(s) may only be…

The conditions under which List I and List II medicinal products are prescribed, held or distributed may, on public health grounds, be made subject, in whole or in part, to the provisions of sub-section 3 of this section by decision of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.