French Public Health Code
In forceManufacturers, importers, operators, stockists, wholesaler-distributors, wholesale distributors of pharmaceutical products other than medicinal products, wholesale distributors of medicinal plants, wholesale distributors of gases for medical use, wholesale distributors for the armed forces health service and humanitarian wholesale distributors may only distribute the medicinal products or products they stock to other companies or organisations authorised to distribute them wholesale or to natural or legal persons authorised to dispense them. To this end, they shall verify by any means that these establishments are authorised as pharmaceutical establishments and that they comply with the good practices mentioned in article L. 5121-5 which are applicable to them.
However, wholesale distributors mentioned in 6° of article R. 5124-2 may only transfer or sell intermediate products to manufacturers mentioned in 1° of the same article.
When the medicinal product is obtained through a broker, the pharmaceutical establishment checks that the broker has declared himself to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé in accordance with article L. 5124-20.
For medicinal products other than investigational medicinal products and for the generators, kits and precursors referred to in 3° of article L. 4211-1 and where the manufacturer or importer does not itself operate the business, it may only wholesale or transfer free of charge the medicinal products or products it manufactures or imports through the intermediary of the operator who carries out these sales or transfer operations.
