To carry out its tasks, the Agency relies on :
1° A national public health network which it organises and runs. This network is made up of any public or private person, French or foreign, who provides assistance with the Agency’s missions and cooperates with it, in particular by means of an agreement or participation in public or scientific interest groups of which the Agency is a member. A decree specifies the organisation of this network;
2° On a network of national centres of reference for the fight against communicable diseases, the designation procedures and missions of which are laid down by decree.
The rights to the anonymised databases set up by the persons, structures or centres mentioned in 1° and 2° of this article at the request of and in accordance with the terms and conditions, in particular the financial terms and conditions, defined by the Agency to enable it to carry out its missions, shall be exercised by the State.
The resources mentioned in 3° of article L. 1413-8 collected or gathered under the same conditions are the property of the State.