I.-The devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 shall be placed on the market or put into service in accordance with Article 5 of that Regulation and this Article.
II.-Pursuant to Article 54 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, upon duly justified request, by way of derogation from the obligation for prior assessment of the conformity of each device provided for in Article 48 of the same Regulation, authorise the placing on the market or putting into service on French territory of a device which has not been subject to such assessment, but whose use is in the interests of public health or the safety or health of patients.
III.A healthcare establishment, within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/746, which manufactures and uses a device exclusively within its premises under the conditions provided for in paragraph 5 of Article 5 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU), shall draw up and send the declaration provided for in point f of this same paragraph 5, an annual report concerning all the devices concerned, as well as the information and documents mentioned in the same paragraph 5, in accordance with the procedures laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.
IV.-The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, by way of derogation from the obligation for prior assessment of the conformity of each device provided for in Article 48 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU), authorise the Minister for Defence to use an in vitro diagnostic medical device and its accessories which have not been subject to such assessment when there is no available or suitable in vitro diagnostic medical device and such use is necessary to meet specific national defence requirements.
This authorisation may be granted for in vitro diagnostic medical devices or their accessories:
1° Manufactured by the armed forces health service;
2° Or manufactured at the request of the Ministry of Defence and distributed by the armed forces health service medical supply establishments;
3° Or imported by the Ministry of Defence.