The National Periodic Certification Board is responsible to the Minister for Health for defining the strategy, deployment and promotion of periodic certification. In this capacity:
1° It sets the scientific guidelines for periodic certification and issues opinions which are made public;
2° It ensures that the players involved in the periodic certification procedure are independent of any ties of interest;
3° It ensures that the actions taken into account for certification purposes meet the criteria of objectivity of professional, scientific and academic knowledge and the ethical rules of the professions concerned.