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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-4

The manufacture, brokerage, distribution, advertising, offer for sale, sale, import, export or purchase of falsified raw materials for pharmaceutical use as defined in article L. 5138-6 are punishable…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-7

For the criminal offences mentioned in this chapter, natural persons are also liable to the following additional penalties: 1° Display or dissemination of the decision handed down, under the condition…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-6

Any attempt to commit the offences referred to in article L. 5438-4 shall be subject to the same penalties.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-3

Any manufacturer, importer or distributor of active substances as defined by Article L. 5138-2 who carries out his activity without having been authorised to do so by the Agence nationale de sécurité…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-8

Legal entities declared criminally liable, under the conditions set out in article 121-2 of the French Criminal Code, for the offences set out in this chapter shall incur, in addition to the fine set…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-2

Any manufacturer, importer or distributor of excipients as defined by Article L. 5138-2 who carries on business without having made a declaration to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et d…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-1

The following constitutes a breach subject to a financial penalty:1° Failure by manufacturers, importers or distributors of active substances to comply with the good manufacturing and distribution pra…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-5

Anyone found to be in possession of falsified raw materials for pharmaceutical use without a legitimate reason is liable to three years' imprisonment and a fine of €75,000.Where the falsified raw mate…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: National register of persons prohibited from managing assets

Article L128-2

The clerks of the commercial courts and the clerks of the civil courts ruling on commercial matters shall have permanent access to the file mentioned in Article L. 128-1.The following may be recipient…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: National register of persons prohibited from managing assets

Article L128-4

No interconnection within the meaning of 3° of I of the article 33 de la loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 précitée ne peut être effectuée entre le fichier national automatisé des interdits de gérer et t…

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