Article L5421-9 of the French Public Health Code
November 6, 2023
Attempted offences under articles L. 5421-2 and L. 5421-3 are punishable by the same penalties.
Attempted offences under articles L. 5421-2 and L. 5421-3 are punishable by the same penalties.
For the criminal offences referred to in this Title, natural persons are also liable to the following additional penalties: 1° Display or dissemination of the decision handed down, under the conditions and subject to the penalties provided for in article 131-35 of the Criminal Code ; 2° Temporary or permanent disqualification from exercising one or more professions governed by this Code, a commercial or industrial profession, from directing, administering, managing…
Legal entities declared criminally liable, under the conditions set out inarticle 121-2 of the French Criminal Code, for the offences set out in this Title shall incur, in addition to the fine set out in article 131-38 of the same Code, the penalties set out in 2° to 9° of article 131-39 of the said Code.
Manufacturing, brokering, distributing, advertising, offering for sale, selling, importing and exporting falsified medicinal products as defined in article L. 5111-3 are punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €375,000. The above penalties are increased to seven years’ imprisonment and a fine of €750,000 when : 1° The falsified medicinal product is dangerous to human health ; 2° These same offences have been committed by pharmaceutical establishments authorised in…
Anyone found to be in possession of falsified medicinal products without a legitimate reason is liable to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of €75,000. If the falsified medicinal product is dangerous to human health, the penalties are increased to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €375,000.
Attempts to commit the offences referred to in article L. 5421-13 shall be subject to the same penalties.
Any advertisement within the meaning of Article L. 5122-1 made to the public or to healthcare professionals for a medicinal product mentioned in 1° of II of Article L. 5121-12 benefiting from an early access authorisation under the same Article L. 5121-12 or for a medicinal product benefiting from an authorisation or a compassionate prescription framework mentioned in Article L. 5121-12-1, for the authorised or controlled indication(s), is punishable by…
Any advertising to the public of a medicinal product within the meaning of Article L. 5122-1 is punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a fine of €150,000: 1° Subject to medical prescription ; 2° Reimbursable by compulsory health insurance schemes, except in the case provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 5122-6 ; 3° Whose marketing authorisation or registration includes restrictions on advertising to the public due to…
Any advertisement within the meaning of article L. 5122-1 which has not obtained approval pursuant to articles L. 5122-8 and L. 5122-9 or which is carried out despite the suspension or withdrawal of approval is punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a fine of €150,000.
Providing samples of medicinal products is punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a fine of €75,000: 1° To persons not authorised to prescribe or dispense medicinal products in the context of in-house pharmacies ; 2° To persons authorised to prescribe or dispense medicinal products in the context of in-house pharmacies, without these persons having expressed a request to do so; 3° Containing substances classified as psychotropic or narcotic, or to…
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