Subsection 5: National consultation committee

The ministers responsible for health, health insurance, the elderly and the disabled chair the National Consultation Committee for the Regional Health Agencies. If these ministers are absent or unable to attend, the secretary general of the ministries responsible for social affairs or his deputy, or the director of human resources, will chair the national consultation committee. The committee comprises sixteen representatives of the staff of the regional health agencies, including…

Staff representatives on the committee are appointed from among the employees of the regional health agencies referred to in Article L. 1432-9 by the trade unions represented on the agency committees. The seats are distributed between the trade union organisations, on the basis of the results of the last elections, in proportion to the cumulative votes they obtained in each of the colleges during the elections of the staff representatives…

The list of trade unions entitled to appoint representatives and the number of seats to which they are entitled are set by order of the ministers responsible for health, health insurance, the elderly and the disabled. This order sets a deadline for the appointment of staff representatives.

A staff representative appointed by a trade union organisation ceases to be a member of the Committee if this organisation submits a written request to the Chairman of the Committee. The trade union organisation will replace the representative within the same period.

If a staff representative on the committee loses his or her position on the Agency and Working Conditions Committee, or ceases to perform his or her duties within the regional health agencies, he or she will be replaced within one month by the trade union organisation that appointed him or her. The term of office of the replacements ends at the same time as that of the other committee members.