Chapter II: Medical transport

Authorisation to put into service category A medical vehicles mentioned in a of 1° of article R. 6312-8 and assigned exclusively to interventions carried out as part of the urgent medical assistance provided for in article L. 6312-4 may be granted by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. In the event that a person in receipt of authorisation uses a vehicle assigned exclusively to emergency medical aid operations…

The application for authorisation to put a healthcare vehicle into service provided for in article R. 6312-36-1 may be submitted by any person holding an authorisation provided for in article L. 6312-2 on the basis of the identification by the healthcare transport sub-committee of a need in an on-call sector. The person submitting the application must provide proof: 1° By any means whatsoever of the actual use of the ambulances…

I.-The General Director of the Regional Health Agency will transfer the authorisation at the request of and in favour of the holder in the event of the replacement of: -a category A vehicle by a category A or C vehicle; -a category C vehicle by a category A or C vehicle; -a category D vehicle by a category D vehicle. II.-1The transfer of the initial authorisation to put a healthcare…

Commissioning authorisations held by a person whose authorisation has been temporarily withdrawn in application of articles L. 6312-3 or L. 6312-5 or article R. 6312-5 may not be transferred during this withdrawal.

All authorisations are deemed to have lapsed: 1° If, through the fault of its beneficiary, the vehicle is not actually put into service within three months of the authorisation being granted or transferred, subject to the provisions of article R. 6312-40; 2° When, through the fault of its beneficiary, the vehicle is taken out of service for more than three months; in the case of a definitive cessation of activity,…

Persons who have been granted authorisation to place in service and whose application for authorisation has been rejected have a period of at least two months, set by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, in which to meet the conditions that were not met in order to obtain authorisation and submit a new application. In the event of a further refusal, the authorisations to place in service the…

In the event of the unlimited withdrawal of authorisation, pronounced in application of articles L. 6312-3 or L. 6312-5 or of article R. 6312-5, the authorisations for the person concerned to commence service are withdrawn. The same applies when a person carries out medical transport despite the temporary withdrawal of their authorisation.

A person who has a vehicle leased from a leasing company or a leasing or hire-purchase organisation and whose lease is terminated or expires without renewal remains the holder of the initial entry-into-service authorisation until the date of its transfer under the conditions provided for in article R. 6312-37 and, at the latest, until the expiry of a period of three months from such termination or expiry.

The health transport sub-committee is kept regularly informed of decisions to issue transfers and withdraw authorisations to put vehicles into service. A six-monthly report on the use of vehicles authorised exclusively for emergency medical aid operations is sent by the company to the regional health agency for examination by the medical transport sub-committee.