II – The application for approval must be made in accordance with a standard application form, the composition of which is set by the Director General of the Agency.
It must be sent to the Director General by registered post with acknowledgement of receipt or lodged with the Agency in return for a receipt under the same conditions.
III – The Director General of the Agency will acknowledge receipt of the application for authorisation and indicate the channels and deadlines for appeals. Where documents essential to the examination of the application are missing, the acknowledgement of receipt will specify the deadline by which these documents must be supplied.
IV – Within two months of the date of receipt of the complete application for authorisation, the Director General of the Agency will notify the applicant practitioner of the decision to grant or refuse authorisation. At the end of this period, the absence of a decision by the Director General is deemed to be an implicit decision to refuse approval.
V. – As part of the examination of the application for authorisation, the Director General of the Agency may request, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, any additional information that he considers necessary for the examination of the application for authorisation. He shall indicate to the applicant the time limit within which this information must be provided. This request for information suspends the deadline mentioned in the previous paragraph.
VI – The holder of the authorisation referred to in Article L. 2131-4 is required to declare to the competent regional health agency and to the Agence de la biomédecine the names of the approved practitioners prior to the implementation of the authorisation, as well as the name of any new approved practitioner prior to taking up their post. It is also required to inform the Regional Health Agency and the Agence de la biomédecine of any cessation of activity by these practitioners.