Subsection 2: Specific provisions

A Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire may participate in public medical, pharmaceutical and post-graduate teaching under the conditions set out in article L. 6142-5. The association agreements concluded between the health cooperation grouping, on the one hand, and the university hospital centre or the dental care, teaching and research centre, on the other hand, are appended to the grouping’s constituent agreement and are approved by the director general of the regional…

Groupements de Coopération Sanitaire may participate in research activities in the following areas and in the following forms: 1° Association with the biomedical research activities referred to in articles L. 1121-1 et seq. of the Public Health Code; 2° Association with biomedical research activities carried out in a university hospital centre under the conditions set out in article L. 6142-5; 3° Carrying out and developing research activities by the grouping…

As part of the activities mentioned in articles R. 6133-22 and R. 6133-23, the General Meeting may authorise the grouping, on a subsidiary basis and in compliance with its corporate purpose, to register and use patents and to exploit its research activities. Profits from the use of patents and the development of research activities are distributed in accordance with article R. 6133-5 and articles R. 611-13 and R. 611-14-1 of…