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Article L1431-1 of the French Public Health Code

In each region and in the territorial collectivity of Corsica, a regional health agency has the task of defining and implementing a coordinated set of programmes and actions contributing to the achievement, at regional and sub-regional level : – the objectives of the national health policy defined in article L. 1411-1 of this Code ; – the principles of social and medico-social action set out in articles L. 116-1 and…

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Article L1431-2 of the French Public Health Code

The regional health agencies are responsible, taking into account the particularities of each region and the specific needs of defence, for 1° Implementing at regional level the health policy defined in application of articles L. 1411-1 and L. 1411-1-1, in liaison with the competent authorities in the fields of occupational health, school and university health and maternal and child protection, and the protocol provided for in article L. 6147-11. To…

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Article L1431-3 of the French Public Health Code

A decree may create inter-regional health agencies and entrust inter-regional powers to one or more regional health agencies. A Conseil d’Etat decree may entrust a single regional health agency with the exercise, at national level, of powers previously held by the Minister for Health or relating to the tasks set out in article L. 1431-2, for which the regional health agencies are responsible. The powers thus attributed to this regional…

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Article L1432-1 of the French Public Health Code

The regional health agencies are public administrative establishments run by the State. They are placed under the supervision of the ministers responsible for health, health insurance, the elderly and the disabled. The regional health agencies have a board of directors and are headed by a director general. Each regional health agency has the following bodies: 1° A regional conference on health and autonomy, responsible for participating through its opinions in…

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Article L1432-2 of the French Public Health Code

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency exercises, on behalf of the State, the powers mentioned in article L. 1431-2 which are not assigned to another authority. Where applicable, he shall exercise throughout the national territory the powers that a decree issued in application of the second paragraph of article L. 1431-3 has assigned to the regional health agency that he heads. At least twice a year, he reports…

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Article L1432-3 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The Board of Directors of the Regional Health Agency is made up of : 1° Representatives of the State ; 2° Members of the boards and councils of the local health insurance bodies within its jurisdiction, whose national fund appoints the members of the board of the Union nationale des caisses d’assurance maladie. For bodies under the general scheme, these members are appointed by employee trade unions and professional employers’…

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Article L1432-4 of the French Public Health Code

The Conférence régionale de la santé et de l’autonomie is a consultative body made up of several colleges, which contributes to regional health policy through its opinions. These colleges include representatives of local and regional authorities, users and associations working in the areas for which the regional health agency is responsible, territorial health councils, organisations representing employees and the independent professions, professional employers’ organisations representative at national and cross-industry level,…

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Article L1432-5 of the French Public Health Code

The budget of the Regional Health Agency must be balanced. It is enforceable within fifteen days of receipt by the ministers responsible for health, the elderly, the disabled and health insurance, unless one of them objects. A supplementary budget, subject to the rules laid down in the first paragraph of this article, is established for the management of the appropriations from the regional intervention fund mentioned in article L. 1435-8…

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Article L1432-6 of the French Public Health Code

The agency’s resources are made up of : 1° A subsidy from the State ; 2° Contributions from health insurance schemes, the amount and distribution of which among the schemes are set each year by order of the ministers responsible for health, social security and agriculture; 3° Contributions from the Caisse nationale de solidarité pour l’autonomie for actions concerning medico-social establishments and services or care and support for the elderly…

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