Section 3: Funeral operations

The burial compartment, intended to receive one or more bodies before committal, is separated in a closed and hermetically sealed manner from the passenger compartment intended for the driver and, where applicable, the passengers. It may consist of a hermetically sealed box fixed irremovably to the body of the vehicle. The burial compartment may not have any glazed area or ventilation system. Its surface is smooth, impermeable and capable of…

The burial compartment has isothermal insulation such that the overall coefficient of heat transmission is no more than 0.7 watts per square metre per degree Kelvin. For an ambient temperature of 30° C, the burial compartment’s cooling system must enable an internal temperature of between 0° C and 7° C to be reached in no more than one hour, and then maintained between these values for at least nine hours….

The bodywork of vehicles transporting a corpse before committal may not be white in colour. The distinctive signs of the user company, if any, are limited to three per vehicle, each with a surface area of no more than 10 square decimetres.

I.-Any person offering for sale a vehicle for transporting a corpse before burial, an insulated body or a cooling system likely to be installed in such a vehicle is required to have a model of the series placed on the market checked each year for compliance with the requirements of the articles D. 2223-110 to D. 2223-114 from a third-party body accredited for these activities by the Comité français d’accréditation…

Vehicles used to transport corpses before coffining are subject to a compliance inspection every three years at most. The prefect designates the body or bodies responsible for carrying out the compliance inspection from among the accredited inspection bodies in accordance with the provisions of Article D. 2223-113. An inspection must also be carried out after any total or partial replacement or any modification or repair of a casing or cooling…