No one may carry out any research mentioned in 1° of Article L. 1121-1 without authorisation from the competent authority issued within a period set by regulation.
If the competent authority informs the sponsor in a letter, stating the reasons, that it has objections to the implementation of the research, the sponsor may modify the content of its research project and submit this new request to the competent authority. This procedure may only be applied once to each research project. If the sponsor does not amend the content of the application, it is considered to have been rejected.
The Data Protection Committee is informed of any changes made to the research protocol at the request of the competent authority.