If the risk to public health, within the meaning of Article 1 of the International Health Regulations 2005, emanates from a vessel flying the French flag wherever it may be, or from a vessel flying a foreign flag sailing in French territorial or internal waters bound for a French port, the representative of the State at sea may decide, after consulting the representative of the State in the defence and security zone whose territory is exposed to the consequences on land and the representatives of the State concerned, to divert this vessel or direct it to a point of entry into the territory which he designates