Article R2223-89-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities
The staff of public bodies, companies or associations and their establishments authorised in accordance with article L. 2223-23, authorised by any person who is entitled to provide for the funeral, have access, under the conditions laid down by the establishment’s internal regulations, to mortuary rooms for the deposit and removal of bodies, for the practice of the conservation treatments mentioned in 3° of Article L. 2223-19 and funeral grooming.