L’Agence Fédérale des Médicaments et des Produits de Santé (A.F.M.P.S.) (The Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products – F.A.M.H.P.). Mdeon is limited to ensuring an a priori oversight.

In this case contact should be made with the « Contact-Point » put in place by the authorities.

Both the sponsoring company and the healthcare professional receiving the sponsorship will be liable to legal proceedings (punishable by a prison sentence of between 1 month and 1 year and/or a fine of between 1.600 and 120.000 EUR).

In order that the two parties concerned (company and healthcare professional) can be sure that the applicable legal and code of ethic provisions have actually been respected (in view of the existence of penal sanctions which exist in case of non-respect of these provisions).

It is therefore essential that the visa number should appear:

  • in correspondence exchanged between organisers and companies in the case of sponsorship of the organiser of an event
  • in the correspondence exchanged between companies and healthcare professionals in the case of direct sponsorship of participants.