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Article L5122-12 of the French Public Health Code

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article L. 5122-11, the following may also engage in the activities defined in the first paragraph of that Article: 1° Persons who were engaged in such activities for at least three years in the ten years prior to 19 January 1994 ; 2° Persons other than those referred to in 1° who were engaged in these activities on 19 January 1994, provided that within four years…

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Article L5122-15 of the French Public Health Code

Advertising or propaganda, in any form whatsoever, relating to objects, devices and methods, presented as favouring the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of diseases, conditions relating to surgical pathology and physiological disorders, the diagnosis or modification of the physical or physiological state, the restoration, correction or modification of organic functions, may be prohibited by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, where it has not been…

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Article L5122-16 of the French Public Health Code

The following are defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat: 1° The conditions for granting, suspending or withdrawing the advertising approval provided for in article L. 5122-8 ; 2° The procedures for applying article L. 5122-9 ; 3° The conditions under which free samples of medicinal products may be given to the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 5122-10; 4° (Repealed) ; 5° (Repealed) ; 6° The…

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Article L5123-1 of the French Public Health Code

Medicinal products and products the sale of which is reserved for pharmacists, with the exception of the medicinal products and products mentioned in article L. 5121-8, may not be sold at a price higher than that resulting from the national pharmaceutical tariff. This tariff is set by order of the ministers responsible for the economy and finance, health and social security. Medicinal products on the list provided for in the…

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Article L5123-2 of the French Public Health Code

The purchase, supply, assumption of responsibility and use by public authorities of medicinal products defined in articles L. 5121-8, L. 5121-9-1, L. 5121-13 and L. 5121-14-1 or benefiting from a parallel import authorisation pursuant to article L. 5124-13 or being the subject of parallel distribution within the meaning of article L. 5124-13-2 are limited, under the conditions specific to these medicinal products set by the decree referred to in article…

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Article L5123-3 of the French Public Health Code

The list referred to in article L. 5123-2 is proposed by a commission of the Haute Autorité de santé referred to in article L. 161-37 of the Social Security Code, the composition and operation of which are set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. The commission may hear medical or pharmaceutical experts, as well as qualified representatives of organisations or services whose opinion the commission wishes to have.

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Article L5123-4 of the French Public Health Code

The list of approved products may include several categories, each corresponding to one or more of the categories of users mentioned in article L. 5123-6. An order of the ministers responsible for veterans, defence and health sets out the terms and conditions of their classification.

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Article L5123-6 of the French Public Health Code

Only specialised products approved for the corresponding categories of users may be : 1° Purchased and used, except in emergencies, by civilian and military health establishments; 2° Purchased and used by local public authorities and organisations of any kind whose resources come in whole or in part from public authority subsidies; 3° Supplied free of charge to beneficiaries of article L. 115 of the Code des pensions militaires d’invalidité et…

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Article L5123-7 of the French Public Health Code

In order to avoid wasting medicines and without infringing on the freedom of medical prescriptions, special arrangements may be laid down by decree for the supply of medicines to beneficiaries of a health insurance scheme and to recipients of social assistance.

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