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Article R6141-60 of the French Public Health Code

Foundations have a Scientific Advisory Board. This board is made up of medical and scientific personalities from outside the foundation, appointed by the Board of Directors in accordance with the procedures set out in the Articles of Association. The Scientific Advisory Board meets at least once a year. Its composition is defined in the Articles of Association and its operating rules are defined in the internal regulations. The Scientific Advisory…

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Article R6141-61 of the French Public Health Code

The foundation’s endowment is made up of contributions from the founding members in the form of tangible and intangible assets, rights or resources defined by the articles of association. Part of the endowment may be used in accordance with the conditions set out in article R. 6141-62. It may be increased by donations and bequests and by a fraction of the surplus of annual resources. Any increase in the endowment…

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Article R6141-62 of the French Public Health Code

The foundation’s annual resources are made up of: 1° Income from the endowment; 2° The portion of the endowment that may be used up, as determined by the articles of association, up to an annual limit of 20% of the endowment. The unused portion of the endowment may not be less than 10% of the initial endowment or, for foundations with an endowment of more than 10 million euros, one…

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Article R6141-63 of the French Public Health Code

The Foundation’s internal rules may only come into force if the Director General of the Regional Health Agency does not object within a period of one month. They shall be amended under the same conditions. The statement of projected income and expenditure and any amending statements voted by the Board of Directors are submitted to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency for approval. If the Director General remains…

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Article R6141-64 of the French Public Health Code

The staff of hospital foundations may be : 1° Civil servants working for a public legal entity mentioned inarticle 2 of law no. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 on the rights and obligations of civil servants and placed in a position in accordance with their status; 2° Contractual agents governed by decree no. 86-83 of 17 January 1986 relating to the general provisions applicable to contractual agents of the State…

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Article R6141-65 of the French Public Health Code

Amendments to the foundation’s articles of association may only be proposed to the supervisory board of the public health institution(s) which took the initiative to create the foundation after two deliberations by the board of directors taken two months apart and by a majority of three quarters of the members present or represented. However, a single deliberation is sufficient when the amendment has been decided unanimously by the members present…

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Article R6141-66 of the French Public Health Code

The foundation is dissolved by a decision of the Board of Directors taken under the conditions set out in article R. 6141-65 or in the event of repeal of the decree approving its articles of association or, at the latest, on the date on which the unused portion of the endowment falls below 10% of the initial endowment or, for foundations with an endowment of more than ten million euros,…

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