I.- When the Director General of the Regional Health Agency becomes aware of a breach of the obligations laid down in this chapter by an establishment providing a public hospital service, he will notify the legal representative of the establishment.
The establishment will communicate its observations and the corrective measures taken or planned as part of an adversarial procedure, the procedures for which are laid down by the Conseil d’Etat decree referred to in Article L. 6112-7.
II – At the end of the adversarial procedure, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and, in the case of army hospitals, the Ministers for Defence and Health may impose:
1° A financial penalty, the amount of which may not exceed 5% of the income received by the health care institution from compulsory health insurance schemes during the previous year;
2° Withdrawal of the authorisation granted to the institution in application of article L. 6112-3. The establishment concerned may not submit a new application for authorisation until one year has elapsed from notification of the withdrawal.
These penalties are proportionate to the seriousness of the breaches observed.