A decree may create inter-regional health agencies and entrust inter-regional powers to one or more regional health agencies.
A Conseil d’Etat decree may entrust a single regional health agency with the exercise, at national level, of powers previously held by the Minister for Health or relating to the tasks set out in article L. 1431-2, for which the regional health agencies are responsible. The powers thus attributed to this regional health agency concern the administrative management of procedures or the adoption of individual decisions in application of specific legislation in the health field.