Section 4: Inspections and controls

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency may appoint inspectors and controllers from among the Agency’s staff who meet the conditions of technical and legal aptitude defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, to carry out the duties provided for in this article in the same way as the staff mentioned in article L. 1421-1; he may also appoint experts to assist them. It may, under the same conditions,…

The Director General of the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction may impose financial penalties on natural or legal persons, which may be accompanied by daily penalty payments, in the cases provided for by law and, where applicable, by decree of the Conseil d’Etat. He may, where applicable, give formal notice to these same persons to rectify the situation. The Director General of the Agency shall first give the natural…

For the sole purpose of recording the offences provided for in Articles L. 5421-2, L. 5421-3, L. 5421-13, L. 5432-1, L. 5432-2, L. 5438-4, L. 5461-3 and L. 5462-3 of the Public Health Code, when committed using a means of electronic communication, the inspectors of the Regional Health Agency authorised under conditions specified by order of the Ministers of Justice, the Interior and Health may, without being criminally liable for…

Inspectors and monitors from the Regional Health Agency may carry out checks and inspections in army hospitals, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article L. 1421-3-1, as part of their duties under Article L. 1435-7.