Part One: General health protection

The Managing Director, the Budget Controller, the Accounting Officer and the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board attend meetings of the Board of Directors in an advisory capacity. The Chief Executive Officer may also be assisted by any person of his choice. The Chairman of the Board of Directors may also invite any person whose presence he considers useful to attend meetings in an advisory capacity.

The duties of members of the Board of Directors are performed free of charge. Travel and accommodation expenses are reimbursed in accordance with the regulations applicable to civil servants.

The Board of Directors meets at least three times a year when convened by its Chairman. In addition, a meeting must be convened within thirty days of a request to do so by one of the supervisory ministers, by the Managing Director or by at least one third of the members of the Board of Directors. In urgent cases, the deliberations of the Board of Directors may be adopted by…

The Chairman sets the agenda on a proposal from the Chief Executive Officer. Items which one of the supervisory ministers or at least one third of the members of the Board of Directors request to be included on the agenda for the next meeting are automatically included. Except in cases of urgency, when they are to be discussed, these questions must be tabled at least fifteen days before the date…

Decisions of the Board of Directors are taken by simple majority. Board members each have one vote, with the exception of the representatives of the ministers mentioned in a, b, c, d and e of 1° of article R. 1313-4, who each have five votes. The Board of Directors may only validly deliberate if at least one quarter of its members holding at least half of the votes are present….

The Board of Directors decides on the general direction of the agency. It adopts the agency’s internal rules. It deliberates on : 1° Multi-year strategic guidelines; 2° The annual work programme; 3° The performance contract entered into with the State; 4° The activity report; 5° The investment programme; 6° The initial budget and amending decisions; 7° The financial account; 8° Contracts, grants and subsidies, above thresholds that it defines; 9°…

The Board of Directors may delegate certain of its powers to its Chairman or to the Chief Executive Officer, with the exception of the matters referred to in 1°, 3°, 4°, 6°, 7°, 10°, 18° and 20°, within the limits that it shall determine and in accordance with procedures that allow it to be held accountable.

Decisions relating to the budget and the financial account are enforceable under the conditions set out in Title III of Decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 relating to public budgetary and accounting management. Decisions relating to private-law personnel are enforceable fifteen days after they have been sent to the supervisory ministers, the Minister for the Budget and the Minister for the Civil Service. Other decisions are immediately enforceable unless…