Preliminary book: Common provisions

In each region and in the territorial collectivities of Corsica, Guyana and Martinique, a regional union of healthcare professionals brings together, for each profession, the representatives of self-employed healthcare professionals. A regional union of health professionals for the Indian Ocean exercises the powers devolved to the regional unions of health professionals for each profession, in Réunion and Mayotte. The regional unions of health professionals are associations governed by the law…

The members of the regional unions of healthcare professionals are elected, for a term set by decree, by healthcare professionals in private practice under the conventional system, by proportional list voting with the highest average. All voters are eligible. The lists of candidates are presented by health profession trade union organisations that have been in existence for at least two years from the legal filing of their articles of association…

The regional unions of healthcare professionals and their federations contribute to the organisation and development of healthcare provision at regional level, in particular to the preparation and implementation of the regional health project. The regional unions of healthcare professionals may enter into contracts with the regional health agency and carry out specific tasks involving self-employed healthcare professionals in the agency’s areas of competence. They assume the tasks entrusted to them…

In order to support the participation of trade unions representing self-employed health professionals under agreement in institutional life, a contribution is instituted, paid on a compulsory basis by each member of one of the agreements mentioned in article L. 4031-3. This contribution is earmarked to finance the regional unions of healthcare professionals and, for a portion set by decree, to finance the second section of the fund mentioned in III…

The provisions of this Title shall not apply to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

One representative of each of the health professions whose members practise on a self-employed basis in Saint-Barthélemy and one representative of each of the health professions whose members practise on a self-employed basis in Saint-Martin sit on the regional union of health professions of the same profession in Guadeloupe. These representatives are appointed, under conditions set by decree, by the territorially competent State representative. These representatives participate in the preparation…

A representative of the professionals practising in Mayotte has a seat in each regional union of health professionals in the Indian Ocean, in accordance with the procedures laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. For each union whose members are elected, the college of voters for the Indian Ocean regional union of health professionals is made up of the professionals concerned practising on a self-employed basis in Réunion and…