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 which the narcotic regulations apply in whole or in part;
4° In areas accessible to the public on the occasion of medical or pharmaceutical congresses;
5° Different from the pharmaceutical specialities concerned or which do not bear the words “free sample”;
6° Free to the public for promotional purposes;
7° To persons authorised on the basis of article L. 5122-10 in quantities exceeding the number set by regulation.