Article R2311-18 of the French Public Health Code
As part of the epidemiological surveillance of sexually transmitted diseases carried out at national level, the centres which carry out the activities mentioned in article R. 2311-14 are obliged to complete, under the conditions laid down by order of the Minister for Health, a standardised collection of anonymous individual data, which is the subject of a summary report sent each quarter to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency.