Section 2: Authorisation to place medical land transport vehicles in service

Once a year, if the theoretical number of vehicles determined in accordance with articles R. 6312-30 and R. 6312-31 is greater than the number of vehicles already authorised, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, after consulting the health transport sub-committee, will determine the priorities for the allocation of additional authorisations for entry into service. These priorities are designed to ensure the best possible distribution of medical transport resources…

Requests for authorisation to commission are registered as soon as they are received. Rejection of an inadmissible application is notified to the applicant, with reasons.

On expiry of the period referred to in the second paragraph of Article R. 6312-33, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency will examine the admissible applications and, after obtaining the opinion of the Health Transport Sub-Committee, will issue authorisations for vehicles to be put into service, specifying the category of vehicle and the location. Licences are awarded according to published priorities and the local competitive situation. If several…

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency may, after obtaining the opinion of the Health Transport Sub-Committee, decide to grant other authorisations during the same calendar year, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this section.

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…