Classification in the category of medicinal products subject to hospital prescription means that the medicinal product may only be prescribed :
1° To a doctor, dental surgeon or midwife who meets the conditions laid down in Book I of Part IV of this Code, as well as in I of Article 60 of Law no. 99-641 of 27 July 1999 creating universal health cover, and who is practising in a public or private health establishment or in a health cooperation grouping authorised, respectively, under Articles L. 6132-2, as it stood prior to the publication of Law no. 2009-879 of 21 July 2009 on hospital reform and patients, health and the territories, and L. 6133-7, to carry out the tasks of a healthcare establishment, or, subject in these cases to its marketing authorisation, its early access authorisation under 1° of II of Article L. 5121-12 or the compassionate access authorisation under II of Article L. 5121-12-1 or the compassionate prescription framework under III of Article L. 5121-12-1 or its early access authorisation under II of Article L. 5121-12-1 or the compassionate prescription framework under III of Article L. 5121-12-1. 5121-12-1 or its import authorisation so provides, in a blood transfusion establishment authorised to dispense medicinal products to patients being treated there, in application of the provisions of article L. 1223-1, or in an addictology care, support and prevention centre or in a free information, screening and diagnosis centre provided for in article L. 3121-2 ;
2° To a doctor meeting the same conditions, strictly within the framework of the activity he or she carries out in a duly authorised cosmetic surgery facility;
3° In public health establishments, to any other person authorised to prescribe acting under the responsibility of a department manager or, if delegated by the latter, a manager of an internal structure of the department, excluding functional units.