Any decision by the Director General to authorise or refuse research and the opinion of the Steering Committee are forwarded simultaneously to the Ministers for Health and Research, who have a period of one month in which to jointly request a re-examination of the application for authorisation, in application of 1° and 2° of III of article L. 2151-5.
When a request for re-examination of an authorised protocol is made by the Ministers, the Director General suspends the authorisation granted for a period of two months. The suspension decision is notified to the authorisation holder.
At the end of the thirty-day period during which the Agency re-examines the application, the silence of the administration is deemed to be confirmation of the initial decision of the Director General of the Agency.