French Public Health Code
In forceThe Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail may suspend the testing, manufacture, preparation, import, use, export, wholesale distribution, packaging and placing on the market, whether free of charge or in return for payment, the holding with a view to sale or distribution free of charge, advertising, prescription, dispensing, use or administration of a veterinary medicinal product or a category of veterinary medicinal products not subject to authorisation or registration prior to their marketing or use, where these medicinal products or the substances they contain either present or are suspected of presenting, under normal conditions of use or under reasonably foreseeable conditions, a danger to human health, animal health or the environment, or are manufactured, placed on the market or used in breach of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products or of this Title.
Suspension shall be imposed either for a period not exceeding one year in the event of danger or suspected danger, or until the medicinal products that fail to comply with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018 or this Title are brought into line.
The Agency may prohibit these activities in the event of serious danger or suspected serious danger to human health, animal health or the environment.
It may also lay down special conditions or restrictions for the use of the medicinal products concerned in order to guarantee their safety.
For reasons of public health protection, the Director of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail may take special restrictive measures for the prescription, storage, free or paid supply or use of veterinary medicinal products containing substances mentioned in article L. 5144-1.
