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Article L3115-11 of the French Public Health Code

The following are determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat: 1° Pursuant to the 2005 International Health Regulations: a) The criteria for designating points of entry to the territory, particularly with regard to the scale of their international traffic and their even distribution across the territory ; b) The criteria for defining serious or unusual health events that must be reported to the health authorities and the procedures for reporting…

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Article L3115-12 of the French Public Health Code

A decree will determine the technical capabilities that points of entry to the territory must acquire, in particular with regard to the provision of appropriate facilities, equipment and personnel, as well as the list of designated points of entry.

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Article L3115-13 of the French Public Health Code

An order by the Minister for Health determines the procedures for rapid access to biological resources useful in combating the international spread of diseases, in order to transmit these resources to reference laboratories in third countries or designated by the World Health Organisation.

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Article L3116-3 of the French Public Health Code

The officials mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 3115-1, responsible for health checks at borders, authorised and sworn under the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, are authorised to investigate and record offences relating to health checks at borders. To this end, these officers have the prerogatives mentioned in articles L. 1421-2 and L. 1421-3. Reports drawn up by these officers are authentic until proven…

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Article L3116-5 of the French Public Health Code

Any civil servant, public official, captain or officer of a ship or aircraft or doctor who, in a document or declaration, alters, conceals or neglects to make known to the health authorities facts that he is obliged to disclose pursuant to the second paragraph of article L. 3115-7 and b of 1° of article L. 3115-11, is punishable by two years’ imprisonment and a fine of 3,750 euros.

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Article L3116-6 of the French Public Health Code

Obstructing the work of the agents mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 3115-1 or the technical inspections carried out by an approved body mentioned in the fourth paragraph of the same article is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of €7,500.

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Article L3121-2 of the French Public Health Code

I.- The Director General of the Regional Health Agency will authorise one or more free information, screening and diagnostic centres, depending on the needs identified at regional level, to provide, on their own premises or off-site, in particular for the populations most concerned: 1° Prevention, screening and diagnosis of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus and viral hepatitis, their preventive treatments on a list set by order of the Minister…

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Article L3121-2-2 of the French Public Health Code

By way of derogation from 8° of Article L. 4211-1, in vitro diagnostic medical devices and their accessories intended to perform self-diagnostics, as defined in point 5 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017, for the detection of transmissible infectious diseases placed on the market in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU)…

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