An association of users of the healthcare system approved pursuant to article L. 1114-1 may take legal action to obtain compensation for individual losses suffered by users of the healthcare system who are in a similar or identical situation and whose common cause is a failure by a producer or supplier of one of the products mentioned in II of article L. 5311-1 or by a service provider using one of these products to comply with their legal or contractual obligations.
The action is not open to associations whose ancillary activity is the marketing of one of the products mentioned in the same II.
The action may only relate to compensation for damage resulting from bodily injury suffered by users of the healthcare system.
The commencement of the action is not subject to Article 64 of Law 2016-1547 of 18 November 2016 on the modernisation of justice in the 21st century or to Article L. 77-10-5 of the Code of Administrative Justice. ;