Article 5U.K.Marketing authorisations
1.A veterinary medicinal product shall be placed on the market only when a competent authority or the Commission, as applicable, has granted a marketing authorisation for that product in accordance with Article 44, 47, 49, 52, 53 or 54.
2.A marketing authorisation for a veterinary medicinal product shall be valid for an unlimited period of time.
3.Decisions to grant, refuse, suspend, revoke or amend by way of a variation a marketing authorisation shall be made public.
4.A marketing authorisation for a veterinary medicinal product shall only be granted to an applicant established in the Union. The requirement to be established in the Union shall also apply to marketing authorisation holders.
5.A marketing authorisation for a veterinary medicinal product intended for one or more food-producing animal species may only be granted if the pharmacologically active substance is allowed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 470/2009 and any acts adopted on the basis thereof for the animal species concerned.
6.In the case of veterinary medicinal products intended for animals which are exclusively kept as pets: aquarium or pond animals, ornamental fish, cage birds, homing pigeons, terrarium animals, small rodents, ferrets and rabbits, Member States may allow exemptions from this Article, provided that such veterinary medicinal products are not subject to a veterinary prescription and that all necessary measures are in place in the Member State to prevent unauthorised use of those veterinary medicinal products for other animals.