For any medicinal product authorised on the French market, each of its presentations and, where applicable, each common dispensing unit, is allocated a national identification number.
This number is allocated by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé in accordance with the allocation procedures and technical specifications that comply with the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 of 2 October 2015 supplementing Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council by laying down detailed rules concerning safety features on the packaging of medicinal products for human use, as determined by order of the Minister for Health. The Director General of the Agency may delegate to a third party, under his responsibility, the technical implementation of the determination of the national identification number referred to in the first paragraph.
For the purposes of this Article, the following definitions shall apply:
1° Presentation: any form of packaging of the medicinal product concerned as it is intended to be placed on the market;
2°. Common dispensing unit: the smallest unit of the medicinal product dispensed for one treatment.