The company or organisation exploiting a medicinal product or a product referred to in Article R. 5121-150 may not communicate information relating to pharmacovigilance to the general public about this medicinal product or product without sending it, beforehand or, in an emergency, simultaneously, to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, to the European Medicines Agency and to the European Commission. This information must be presented in an objective and non-misleading manner.
The company or organisation exploiting a medicinal product or a product mentioned in Article R. 5121-150 which informs, in application of Article L. 5124-6, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé that it has taken action to suspend the marketing of a medicinal product or a product or to withdraw it from the market, or to withdraw a particular batch, shall indicate the content of any communication messages intended to accompany this action, as well as the procedures for their dissemination, when the suspension or withdrawal is justified on one of the grounds mentioned in article R. 5121-47.