Section 1: High Council of medical, odontological and pharmaceutical staff of public health establishments

The Board sits either : 1° At a plenary meeting made up of the Chairman, the colleges of representatives mentioned in 1° of article R. 6156-2, the representatives mentioned in 2° of article R. 6156-2 and the representatives of the ministers concerned. The representation of the staff mentioned in 1° of article R. 6156-2 includes the statutory colleges concerned by the issues on the agenda. The plenary assembly meets at…

Questions or draft texts submitted to the Board of Governors shall be, by decision of its Chairman: 1° placed directly on the agenda of the plenary session; or 2° placed directly on the agenda of one of its specialised committees; or 3° Referred for consideration to one of its specialised committees before inclusion on the agenda of the plenary session. Apart from examining the draft texts referred to in Article…

The specialised committees referred to in a to c of 2° of Article R. 6156-31 are made up of representatives of the trade unions represented on the Board and the members referred to in 2° of Article R. 6156-2. The trade union organisations have a number of seats on each of these specialised panels equivalent to that obtained in each of the statutory colleges. They appoint their representatives. Each of…

The secretariat of the High Council of Medical, Odontological and Pharmaceutical Staff of Public Health Establishments and its specialised committees is provided by the Directorate General for Healthcare Provision. Minutes are drawn up after each meeting of the plenary assembly or the specialised committees. They are submitted for approval at a subsequent meeting. At each meeting, the Board of Governors may hear representatives of the administration concerned by the issues…

The agendas for meetings of the full Board and specialised committees, as well as related documents, must be sent to the members of the Board by electronic means at least fifteen days before the meeting. This deadline is reduced to eight days in urgent cases. The specialised committee meeting must be held at least eight days before the plenary session.

The Chairman of the Board of Governors or of a specialised committee shall summon any person whom he deems likely to enlighten the discussions, either on his own initiative or at the request of a member of the Board of Governors or of one of its specialised committees. The person summoned may only attend that part of the debate, excluding the vote, relating to the issues on which his hearing…

The deliberations of the plenary meeting and the specialised committees are not public. The plenary session is valid only if half of the members of the statutory colleges convened according to the agenda and of the college of representatives of public health institutions with voting rights are present at the opening of the meeting. If this quorum is not reached, a new notice is sent within eight days to the…

Only the members mentioned in 1° and 2° of article R. 6156-2 take part in the vote. Substitutes only have the right to vote in the absence of the full members they are replacing. The Board of Governors issues opinions by a majority of the members present from each of the three statutory colleges mentioned in Article R. 6156-3, on the one hand, and of the members present mentioned in…

The Chairman, the full or alternate members of the Board of Governors’ plenary session and specialised committees and the persons summoned pursuant to the provisions of Article R. 6156-36 do not receive any remuneration in this capacity. The Chairman, the members of the Board of Governors with voting rights and the persons summoned are reimbursed for their travel and subsistence expenses under the conditions laid down in the regulations applicable…

The Chairman of the Board of Governors shall adopt the rules of procedure, drawn up on the basis of a draft prepared by the Minister for Health, after obtaining the opinion of the Board sitting in plenary session. These rules specify in particular the powers and operating rules of the specialised committees, as well as the rules for submitting, amending and voting on amendments to the draft texts mentioned in…