As expected in a previous article, the French government notified on July 2021 to the European Commission a draft order implementing Article R. 5132-86 of the Public Health Code for Cannabis. The draft order aims at bringing French regulation on CBD products into line with the recent case law of the Court of Justice of…

Until recently, French law on importation and sale of CBD was very restrictive. The Arrêté of 22 August 1990 only allowed the sale of hemp products made from fibers and seeds of cannabis sativa varieties with a THC content not exceeding 0.2%. In addition, the French government imposed that final CBD-based product should not contain…