The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail shall inform the European Medicines Agency, the other Member States of the European Union, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and the company operating the veterinary medicinal product of any suspected serious adverse reaction and any suspected adverse reaction in humans which has been reported to it, no later than fifteen days after the report. It shall also inform the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé of any suspected adverse reaction in humans which may be due to the administration of a medicinal product for human use to an animal under the conditions provided for in a of 3° of Article L. 5143-4 .
The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety) lays down the procedures for providing information to the various parties involved in the national veterinary pharmacovigilance system.
When France is designated as the reference Member State for the implementation of the decentralised procedure or the mutual recognition procedure provided for in Articles R. 5141-47-1 et seq., the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail is responsible for analysing and monitoring serious adverse reactions and transmissions of infectious agents which may be due to this medicinal product and of which he has become aware in accordance with the last paragraph of Article R. 5141-104.