Subsection 1: General provisions.

To carry out its missions, the National Public Health Agency : 1° Identifies, gathers, analyses, updates and disseminates information, data and knowledge about the state of health of populations and the health risks threatening them, their causes and trends. To this end, it creates information systems enabling it to access scientific, health, demographic, behavioural, social, climatic, environmental, statistical, industrial and commercial data as quickly as possible, particularly in terms of…

In order to carry out its missions, the National Public Health Agency may in particular: 1° Acquire the necessary movable and immovable property; 2° Allocate, from its own budget, grants, loans or advances to public or private bodies carrying out studies, research, work, equipment or works contributing to the fulfilment of its missions; 3° To enter into agreements or participate in public interest groupings with any public or private entity,…