The application for marketing authorisation for a veterinary medicinal product shall be sent to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail, by any means capable of producing a date certain.
In the case of veterinary medicinal products intended for one or more food-producing animal species, but for which the pharmacologically active substance or substances do not yet appear, for the species or species in question, in Table 1 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 of 22 December 2009 on pharmacologically active substances and their classification as regards maximum residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin, the application for marketing authorisation may only be submitted after a valid application for the establishment of maximum residue limits has been submitted in accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 laying down Community procedures for the establishment of residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin. The period between the valid application for the establishment of maximum residue limits and the application for marketing authorisation shall be at least six months.
This application includes the information indicated in article R. 5141-14, the summary of product characteristics provided for in article R. 5141-15 and the dossier mentioned in article R. 5141-16.
In addition, the applicant shall provide the Director General with samples of the medicinal product and shall keep at his disposal samples of the starting materials, reference substances and other constituents, in sufficient quantity to carry out the checks provided for in article R. 5141-27.