I.-When a medicinal product, which is the subject of a compassionate access authorisation, obtains a marketing authorisation, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé shall set the date on which the granting of these authorisations ceases.
This date shall be determined having regard to the date of notification of the marketing authorisation and the period required for the medicinal product to be marketed in accordance with the provisions of the marketing authorisation.
This period may not exceed three months from the date of issue of the marketing authorisation.
By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, this period may be extended, by decision of the Director General of the Agency, at the request of the marketing authorisation holder who can justify the exceptional nature of the situation.
The information required to set this date is communicated to the Agency by the marketing authorisation holder. The date on which compassionate access authorisations are no longer issued is communicated to the marketing authorisation holder. This date is also communicated to the Ministers for Health and Social Security.
II.As soon as the Director of the Agency is aware that research involving the human person for commercial purposes, including a clinical trial, is being conducted on a medicinal product in an indication for which compassionate access authorisations have been issued in application of the first paragraph of II of Article L. 5121-12-1, the Director of the Agency will request, without delay and by any means giving a date certain of receipt, that the holder of the exploitation rights for the medicinal product undertakes to submit, within the time period specified by decree, an application for the early access authorisation referred to in Article L. 5121-12. The holder of the exploitation rights has a period of one month from the date of receipt of the application to provide this undertaking.