Learning programmes are designed to improve patient care and the correct use of medicines. They are designed to encourage and monitor the appropriation of technical procedures carried out by patients themselves.
They may be set up at the request of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé or the European Commission, in particular as part of the risk management plans provided for either in 3° of Article R. 5121-25 and Article R. 5121-37-2, or in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency.