The health cooperation groupings mentioned in articles L. 1221-10 and L. 6133-1 may be authorised to manage a blood bank.
The authorisation for a blood depot is issued by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency for the needs of several health establishments that are members of the group, in compliance with the following cumulative conditions:
1° The time taken to supply or transfer labile blood products from the group’s blood depot to the health establishments which are members of the group concerned is compatible with the transfusion safety rules as specified in the good practices provided for in article L. 1222-12 ;
2° The healthcare establishments which are members of the consortium concerned by the blood depot authorisation may not themselves be authorised to manage a blood depot, except in the case of an emergency depot.
Subject to the specific provisions of this article, the blood establishment authorisation is subject to all the provisions of this section, with the group administrator exercising the powers of the director of a health care establishment for its application.
The technical conditions for authorising a blood bank are defined by order of the Minister for Health and the Minister for Defence.
The consortium’s constitutive agreement includes the compulsory information mentioned in IV of article R. 6133-1.
A new blood establishment authorisation is issued for the consortium, in accordance with the conditions laid down in this section, when a decision is taken to join, withdraw or exclude a member health establishment concerned by the initial blood establishment authorisation.
The initial authorisation shall continue until the date of the decision of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency if it is favourable and, in the event of refusal, for a further two months from the date of such refusal.