A Spanish court has ordered a doctor and the clinic he works for to pay 7,455 euros ($9,758) in compensation to a woman who received breast implants made by the French firm at the centre of a global health scare after one of them broke.

The woman, who is now 45 years old, received the breast implants made by now-bankrupt French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) in April 2001, and one of them broke in March 2008.

The Madrid court ruled that Domingo Tomas Linares and the Centro Clinico Menorca had not warned the woman of the risk that the implants could rupture, according to a copy of the ruling released Tuesday.

"In no way was the possibility of the rupture of the implants referred to, it being an inherent, albeit minimum, risk of the operation even if the implants were not defective," the court wrote in its ruling dated January 16.

France's health ministry on December 23 advised 30,000 women in the country with implants made by PIP to have them removed after the firm was found to have been using industrial-grade silicone gel in its implants.

The use of industrial-grade silicone gel caused abnormally high rupture rates, but the authorities have said there was no proven cancer risk.

More than 400,000 women in more than 65 countries have received breast implants made by the company whose founder, Jean-Claude Mas, was charged last month in France with causing "involuntary injuries".