Section 1: Composition and operation.

In each department, a committee for urgent medical aid, permanent care and medical transport ensures the quality of the distribution of urgent medical aid, the organisation of permanent care and its adjustment to the needs of the population in compliance with the regional specifications defined in article R. 6315-6. It ensures the cooperation of natural and legal persons involved in emergency medical aid, the permanent care service and medical transport.

The Comité Départemental de l’Aide Médicale Urgente, de la Permanence des Soins et des Transports Sanitaires, co-chaired by the Prefect or his representative and the Director General of the Regional Health Agency or his representative, is made up of : 1° Representatives of local and regional authorities: a) A departmental councillor appointed by the departmental council or, in Corsica, an executive councillor appointed by the president of the executive council;…

I. – Representatives of local and regional authorities are appointed for the duration of their elected term of office. The other members of the committee are appointed for a term of three years. II. – The secretariat of the Committee is provided by the Regional Health Agency. The Committee shall draw up its own rules of procedure.

The committee shall set up a medical sub-committee and a medical transport sub-committee. It is convened at least once a year by its chairmen or at the request of at least half of its members.