The administrative authority referred to in Article L. 490-5 is the head of the national investigations department of the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control, the regional director of companies, competition, consumer affairs, labour and employment, the director of the departmental directorate responsible for population protection or their appointed representative.
For the application of this article in the overseas departments and regions, the references to the “regional director of companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment” and to the “director of the departmental directorate in charge of population protection” are replaced by the reference to the “director of companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment” “or, in French Guyana, to the “general director of cohesion and populations””.