The manufacture, brokerage, distribution, advertising, offer for sale, sale, import, export or purchase of falsified raw materials for pharmaceutical use as defined in article L. 5138-6 are punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €375,000.
These penalties are increased to seven years’ imprisonment and a fine of €750,000 when :
1° These raw materials are dangerous to human or animal health ;
2° The offences referred to in the first paragraph have been committed by manufacturers, importers or distributors authorised or declared in accordance with article L. 5138-1 or by pharmaceutical establishments authorised in accordance with article L. 5124-3;
3° These same offences were committed as part of an organised gang;
4° The offences of advertising, offering for sale and selling falsified raw materials for pharmaceutical use were committed on a telecommunications network intended for a non-specified public.