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 accordance with article L. 5124-3, brokers declared in accordance with article L. 5124-20, dispensing pharmacists holding the licence mentioned in article L. 5125-18 and in-house pharmacists mentioned in article L. 5126-3 of the same code;
3° These same offences were committed as part of an organised gang;
4° The offences of advertising, offering for sale or selling falsified medicinal products were committed on a telecommunications network intended for a non-specified public.