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Chapter I: Accreditation and quality control

Article R6221-1 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The French Accreditation Committee shall make the information form and the self-assessment questionnaire available on its website. No later than sixteen weeks before its planned opening date, the medical biology laboratory shall send the French Accreditation Committee, by electronic means or by post with acknowledgement of receipt, its application for accreditation together with a complete file containing the information form, the self-assessment questionnaire, the quality manual and the main procedures…

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Article R6221-2 of the French Public Health Code

The laboratory must actually open within four weeks of notification of the provisional certificate referred to in 4° of III of Article R. 6221-1. Once this period has elapsed, the provisional certificate lapses. As from the actual opening of the laboratory, the provisional attestation is valid until the accreditation decision and for a maximum of twenty weeks.

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Article R6221-4 of the French Public Health Code

The French Accreditation Committee shall notify the laboratory of the accreditation decision no later than twenty weeks after the actual opening of the laboratory. Within the same time limit, the French Accreditation Committee shall send this accreditation decision to the bodies mentioned in Article L. 6221-6. If the French Accreditation Committee does not respond within twenty weeks of the actual opening of the laboratory, the application for accreditation is deemed…

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Article D6221-5 of the French Public Health Code

When a medical biology laboratory established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area carries out the analytical phase of medical biology examinations begun in France, the accreditation conditions, the authorisation conditions or the approval conditions referred to in 1° and 2° of Article L. 6221-4 are recognised as equivalent to those laid down for medical biology laboratories established on…

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Article D6221-6 of the French Public Health Code

The list of Member States of the European Union or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area in which the accreditation conditions, the authorisation conditions or the approval conditions for medical biology laboratories performing the analytical phase of a medical biology examination begun in France are recognised as equivalent to those imposed on medical biology laboratories established on French territory is set by order of the Minister for…

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Article D6221-7 of the French Public Health Code

The declaration provided for in 1° and 2° of Article L. 6221-4shall be sent by the medical biology laboratory established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area to the Minister responsible for health, by electronic means or by post with acknowledgement of receipt. It must be accompanied by a copy of the documents representing accreditation, authorisation or approval issued…

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Article D6221-8 of the French Public Health Code

The person in charge of the medical biology laboratory established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area shall inform the Minister responsible for health without delay in the event of suspension or withdrawal of the accreditation, authorisation or approval issued by the competent authorities of the State in which it is established. At any time, the Minister for Health…

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Article D6221-9 of the French Public Health Code

When a medical biology laboratory established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area which is not on the list referred to in Article D. 6221-6 carries out the analytical phase of a medical biology examination begun in France, the authorisation provided for in 3° of Article L. 6221-4 is granted provided that its operating conditions comply with the criteria…

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Article D6221-10 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The application for authorisation provided for in 3° of Article L. 6221-4 shall be sent by the medical biology laboratory established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area to the Minister responsible for health, by electronic means or by post with acknowledgement of receipt. II – If the medical biology laboratory is accredited in its own country under the…

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