Clinical investigations may only be carried out in a place that has the human, material and technical resources appropriate to the clinical investigation and compatible with the safety requirements of the persons undergoing it.
This location must be authorised for this purpose, for a specific period of time, in the case of clinical investigations involving an intervention on a person which is not justified by his/her usual care and which exposes him/her to risks and constraints which are not minimal, carried out outside the place of care, in the homes of the participants in these clinical investigations, as well as in hospital departments and in any other place where healthcare professionals practise, when these clinical investigations require procedures other than those they usually perform as part of their activity, or when these clinical investigations are performed on persons presenting a clinical condition other than that for which the service is responsible. This authorisation is granted by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency or by the Minister of Defence, if the site comes under his authority. However, authorisation is granted by the Minister for Veterans for sites located within the Institution nationale des invalides.