An order of the Minister for Health, issued on a proposal from the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and after consultation with the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, defines the operating procedures for the computer system, common to all drug dependence and addictovigilance assessment and information centres, designed to collect, record, evaluate and use data relating to cases of drug dependence and abuse with a view to assisting public decision-making in this field.
The system includes a national database of anonymised cases of drug dependence and abuse, designed to support investigations into drug dependence.