The Minister for Research may at any time suspend or prohibit the pursuit of activities that no longer meet the requirements set out in Article L. 1243-3. When the organisation is a health establishment, the decision to suspend or prohibit is taken jointly by the Minister for Research and the Director General of the Regional Health Agency.
Before any decision to suspend or ban is taken, the organisation is given formal notice by the Minister for Research, with the agreement, where appropriate, of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, to put an end to the breaches observed within a set period or to submit its observations. The managers of the organisation may be heard at their request. If the measures taken are not such as to put an end to the breaches observed or if the measures prescribed are not implemented within the time limit set, the Minister for Research and, where appropriate, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency will notify the organisation of the suspension or prohibition decision.
The suspension decision specifies the requirements with which the organisation must comply in order to recover the benefit of the declaration. The period of suspension may not exceed one year. The prohibition decision may include requirements relating to the preservation of tissues, cells and their derivatives; it may organise their transfer to another organisation or order their destruction.