Exceptionally and where necessary, in order to ensure the availability of medicinal products, where a manufacturing establishment of an active substance intended for export and located in a third country has been inspected by a Member State and found to comply with the principles and guidelines of good manufacturing practice, the requirement referred to in Article R. 5138-7 may be waived for a period not exceeding the validity of the certificate of good manufacturing practice issued. If the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé makes use of this provision, it shall inform the European Commission in accordance with Article 46b of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use.