A French court has ruled a German company must pay compensation to women whose breast implants ruptured.

Manufacturer Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) was found to have used substandard silicone gel in their implants.

The company tasked with ensuring the materials were up to standard, German firm TUV Rheinland, has been ordered to pay more than $4,000 to each victim to have them removed.

Thousands of women around the world, including 500 in Australia, have had their sub-standard implants burst since the scandal first emerged in 2010.

The French Court is now just waiting individual medical and financial assessments for individual plaintiffs before ruling exactly how much TUV will pay.

PIP founder Jean-Claude Mas and four other executives are embroiled in their own court case over the matter, all five are charged with aggravated fraud.

In its arguments, TUV claimed it was only responsible for checking the manufacturing process, not the implants themselves.

New rules have been laid out to make sure inspection bodies randomly carry out unannounced factory audits to check for the substitution or adulteration of raw materials.

About 80 per cent of PIP’s implants were exported – about half went to Latin America, a third to western Europe, 10 per cent to eastern Europe and the rest to the Middle East and Asia.