Book III: Health protection and the environment

The Agence nationale chargée de la sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail is a public administrative body. It provides independent and pluralist scientific expertise. Its main contribution is to ensure human health safety in the fields of the environment, work and food. It also helps to ensure: -the protection of animal health and welfare ; -the protection of plant health; -the assessment of the nutritional and functional…

The Agency shall have access, at its request and under conditions which preserve the confidentiality of the data with regard to third parties, to the information necessary for the performance of its duties which is held by any natural or legal person and which may not be challenged on the grounds of medical confidentiality, professional confidentiality or business confidentiality. The data, summaries and statistics drawn from them, as well as…

With a view to fulfilling its missions, the Agency may refer any matter to itself. Matters may be referred to it by the competent State authority, the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices, other State public establishments and the bodies represented on its Board of Directors. It may also be approached by consumer protection associations approved under article L. 811-1 of the Consumer Code, by environmental…

Every year, the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail draws up a report on its activities, which is sent to Parliament: 1° As part of its tasks relating to plant protection products, adjuvants and fertilising materials and crop supports, as provided for in the eleventh paragraph of Article L. 1313-1 ; 2° As part of its risk monitoring duties, in particular as part of…

The Agency is administered by a Board of Directors comprising, in addition to the Chairman, appointed by decree, and staff representatives, five colleges comprising respectively: 1° Representatives of the State ; 2° Representatives of approved environmental protection associations, health system users’ associations approved under article L. 1114-1 and approved consumer protection associations, as well as national associations of victims of accidents at work and occupational diseases mentioned in article L….

The agency is headed by a Director General appointed by decree. The Director General issues opinions and recommendations falling within the remit of the Agency and, on behalf of the State, takes decisions falling within its remit pursuant to Title IV of Book I of Part Five and the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth paragraphs of Article L. 1313-1. Decisions taken by the Director General pursuant to this article may…

A Scientific Advisory Board ensures the quality and consistency of the Agency’s scientific work. The Agency sets up the specialist expert committees required to carry out its missions.

A Marketing Authorisation Monitoring Committee, composed under conditions laid down by decree, is set up within the Agency. The Director General of the Agency may, before any decision is taken, consult the Marketing Authorisation Monitoring Committee on the conditions of implementation of marketing authorisations for plant protection products and adjuvants mentioned inArticle L. 253-1 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, biocidal products mentioned in Article L. 522-1 of…

The agency’s resources are made up of : 1° Subsidies from public authorities, their public bodies, the European Union or international organisations; 2° Proceeds from taxes and payments made on its behalf; 3° Proceeds from fees for services rendered; 4° Miscellaneous income, donations and legacies; 5° Loans.

The Agency employs staff governed by titles II, III or IV of the general status of civil servants as well as the staff mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L. 6152-1, teachers at the national veterinary schools or veterinarians attached to them, veterinarians employed by other public establishments, and veterinarians and health officers under contract to the State, on active service, secondment or secondment. The provisions of article L….