To be authorised, a blood depot must meet the following conditions:
1° Have an organisation and resources enabling it to carry out its activities in accordance with the procedures defined by order of the Minister for Health, ensuring the supply of labile blood products, the safety of these products and their traceability;
2° It must have a doctor or pharmacist with the qualifications mentioned in article R. 1222-23 and at least one person belonging to one of the categories mentioned in 1°, 2°, 3° or 4° of this article and with the specific qualifications mentioned in the same article;
3° For distribution depots, to have the means to receive immuno-haematology analyses electronically so that the analysis results can be integrated into the information system that secures distribution without entry;
4° For supply depots, be able to supply an annual volume of labile blood products at least equal to a threshold defined by the same order;
5° For relay depots and dispensing depots, have a computerised system to ensure the management and traceability of labile blood products that meets the requirements resulting from the principles of good transfusion practice mentioned in Article L. 1222-12;
6° To meet transfusion needs identified in the regional blood transfusion organisation plan and justified in the establishment’s medical project and in its multiannual contract of objectives and resources, or, where applicable, in application of IV of article R. 6133-1, in the grouping’s constitutive agreement, the procedures for implementing and operating the depot in such a way as to meet the aforementioned needs;
7° Be located in dedicated and identified premises within the health establishment holding the authorisation or the one designated by the health cooperation grouping agreement to house the depot.
The fifth, seventh and eighth paragraphs of this article do not apply to army hospitals.