French Public Health Code
In forceI. - Before issuing the authorisation applied for, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) will request from the Ministry of Justice the bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record or any equivalent document from the administration concerned, concerning the applicant for the authorisation, the persons authorised by the applicant to carry out the operations envisaged in the authorisation, the director of the establishment and the legal entity for which this director is acting.
II - Authorisation is refused if the applicant has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanour, as recorded in bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record or an equivalent document. Authorisation is also refused if the director of the establishment in which the operations are carried out or the legal entity on whose behalf the director of the establishment is acting has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanour, as recorded in bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record or an equivalent document.
The authorisation automatically ceases to have effect if the persons mentioned in the previous paragraph are convicted of a felony or misdemeanour, as recorded in bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record or in an equivalent document. The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, at any time, request a new bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record or any other equivalent document for the persons mentioned in the previous paragraph, in order to verify that these persons have not been the subject of a conviction recorded on this bulletin or on an equivalent document.
III - If one of the persons whom the applicant proposes to authorise has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanour, entered on bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record or on an equivalent document, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé will inform the applicant that the authorisation will only be issued if this person is no longer on the list of persons whom the applicant proposes to authorise.
Where one of the persons authorised by the authorisation holder has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanour, as recorded in bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record or an equivalent document, the Director General of the Agency will suspend the authorisation until that person is no longer on the list of authorised persons.
