Manufacturers, importers, operators, stockists, wholesaler-distributors, wholesale distributors of pharmaceutical products other than medicinal products, wholesale distributors of medicinal plants, distributors of gases for medical use, wholesale distributors of products necessary for the protection of the population against serious health threats and wholesale distributors of the armed forces health service may export outside the national territory the medicinal products or products that they sell, transfer free of charge or distribute, with the exception of advanced therapy medicinal products prepared on an ad hoc basis mentioned in 17° of article L. 5121-1 which are not used in the context of research mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 1121-1.
Exports by these companies or organisations, as well as by wholesale export distributors, to other Member States of the European Community or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area may only be intended for natural or legal persons authorised to carry out similar activities or authorised to dispense the medicinal products or products concerned in these States. When these exports take place to countries outside the European Union or not party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, they may only be intended for persons authorised or entitled to receive the medicinal products with a view to wholesale distribution or dispensing to the public in these countries.
Medicinal products or products received directly from countries outside the European Union or not party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, without being imported, may only be obtained from persons authorised or entitled to supply medicinal products, in accordance with the legal and administrative provisions in force in the third country concerned.
The documents attesting to the authorisation or entitlement to supply or dispense medicinal products or to receive them for wholesale distribution from the persons located in a third country mentioned in the previous paragraphs are kept at the disposal of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.