Chapter II: Health expertise

Health expertise is based on the principles of impartiality, transparency, plurality and the adversarial process.

A Health Expertise Charter, approved by decree by the Conseil d’Etat, applies to expert appraisals carried out in the fields of health and health safety at the request of the Minister for Health or at the request of the authorities and bodies mentioned in I of article L. 1451-1. It specifies the procedures for choosing experts, the expert appraisal process and its relationship with decision-making power, the concept of a…

Persons invited to contribute their expertise in the fields of health and health safety to the Minister for Health, to the commissions and councils sitting with the Ministers for Health and Social Security, to the collegiate bodies of the authorities and bodies mentioned in I of article L. 1451-1 without being members of these commissions, councils or bodies, shall first file a declaration of interests. They shall also submit it,…