Newborn screening using medical biology tests, including genetic tests, constitutes a national health programme within the meaning ofarticle L. 1411-6.
The procedures for organising this screening and the list of diseases covered by it are set by order of the ministers responsible for health and social security, after receiving the opinion of the Haute Autorité de Santé and the Agence de la biomédecine.
Newborn screening is systematically offered to the holders of parental authority for all newborns and, in certain cases, for newborns who present a particular risk of developing one of the diseases set by the order mentioned in the second paragraph of this article.
Where newborn screening uses an examination of genetic characteristics, the provisions of Chapter I of Title III of Book I of this Part are adapted by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. This decree shall in particular adapt the procedures for informing relatives provided for in I ofarticle L. 1131-1 and the procedures for communicating the results of the genetic characteristics test provided for inarticle L. 1131-1-3, to make them applicable only when a genetic anomaly is diagnosed which may be responsible for one of the diseases set by the decree mentioned in the second paragraph of this article and to allow the results of this test to be communicated to the parents or persons with parental authority by a health professional other than the one who prescribed it.