Chapter III: Medical biologists

The following are members of the commission, appointed by order of the Minister for Health, for a renewable term of five years: 1° A medical biologist appointed by the Académie nationale de médecine ; 2° A medical biologist appointed by the Académie nationale de pharmacie; 3° A medical biologist appointed by the Conseil national de l’ordre des médecins; 4° A medical biologist appointed by the Conseil national de l’ordre des…

When the Commission is sitting to examine the requests mentioned in 3° of Article L. 6213-2 and in Article L. 6213-2-1, it meets in a restricted formation chaired by the Chairman or Vice-Chairman and is made up of the members mentioned in I and in 6° and 7° of II of Article R. 6213-17 as well as in 3° to 9° of Article R. 6213-18. The central director of the…

The secretariat of the Commission is provided by the Directorate General for Health. However, when the commission rules, in a restricted formation, on the requests mentioned in 3° of article L. 6213-2 and in article L. 6213-2-1 or, in a plenary formation, on the requests mentioned in 1° of article L. 6213-2 as well as in V of article 9 of order no. 2010-49 of 13th January 2010 relating to…

Substitutes, equal in number to the full members, except for the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman and the members mentioned in article R. 6213-17, are appointed under the same conditions as the full members. They only sit on the committee in the absence of the full member.

The Commission nationale de biologie médicale shall set up a monitoring committee responsible for analysing the annual summary published by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé of the reports produced by the external quality assessment bodies referred to in Article L. 6221-9 and for proposing any measures intended to improve the accreditation and quality control procedures for medical laboratories. This monitoring committee includes in…

The Chairman of the Committee may : 1° Propose, after hearing the interested party, that a member who has been absent without justified reason from more than three consecutive meetings be replaced by a person appointed under the same conditions and for the remainder of the term of office; 2° Set up working groups to deal with any issues submitted to the Committee; 3° Entrust members of the Committee with…

Article L. 1451-1 applies to full and alternate members of the Commission and to persons taking part in its work.

The travel expenses of the full or alternate members of the National Medical Biology Commission and of the persons who take part in its work are reimbursed under the conditions laid down in the regulations applicable to civil servants.

Employers are required to allow staff from public health establishments who are members of the Commission nationale de biologie médicale the time they need to attend and participate in meetings of this body.

The committee draws up its own rules of procedure.