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Article R1211-6 of the French Public Health Code

The provisions of articles R. 1211-2 to R. 1211-5 apply to travel relating to the examinations and care that precede or follow the removal or collection, as well as to travel for the purpose of expressing the donor’s consent in accordance with articles L. 1231-1, L. 1231-3 and L. 1244-2 and hearings by the committee of experts provided for in article L. 1231-3.

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Article R1211-7 of the French Public Health Code

The provisions of articles R. 1211-2 to R. 1211-6 apply to the person accompanying a donor whose condition requires the assistance of a third party, to the holders of parental authority or the legal representative of the donor in the case of a minor, as well as to the person responsible for a legal protection measure with representation relating to the person.

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Article R1211-8 of the French Public Health Code

The health establishment which carries out the removal or collection shall bear the costs of examinations and treatment prescribed with a view to removal, all hospital costs, including the lump sum referred to in article L. 174-4 of the Social Security Code, as well as the costs of follow-up and care provided to the donor as a result of the removal.

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Article R1211-9 of the French Public Health Code

When elements of the human body are collected during a medical procedure under the conditions provided for in article L. 1245-2, the health care establishment shall bear the costs of the medical biology analyses provided for in articles R. 1211-15 and R. 1211-16.

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Article R1211-10 of the French Public Health Code

The cost of transporting the patient from one healthcare establishment to another, with a view to establishing the diagnosis of brain death and taking samples for therapeutic purposes, shall be borne by the latter establishment. The healthcare establishment that takes the samples shall bear the costs incurred by establishing the donor’s death and providing medical assistance for the body before the samples are taken. Similarly, the cost of transporting the…

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Article R1211-11 of the French Public Health Code

On the basis of their cost accounting, and per type of product or element of the human body, with the exception of organs, health establishments determine the costs of therapeutic withdrawals as they result from articles R. 1211-2 to R. 1211-10. Depending on the case, these costs are invoiced either to the establishment which carries out the graft, administration or insemination, or to the establishment or organisation authorised to store…

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Article R1211-12 of the French Public Health Code

The provisions of this sub-section apply to any removal of organs, tissues or cells and any collection of products carried out with a view to their use or that of their derivatives for therapeutic purposes for others, including in the context of biomedical research within the meaning of Article L. 1121-1. The provisions of this sub-section also apply in the case of incorporation of these elements or products, in particular…

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Article R1211-13 of the French Public Health Code

I – Prior to any removal or collection of elements and products of the human body for therapeutic purposes from a living or deceased person, doctors and, in the situation referred to in IV, midwives ensure the identity of the potential donor and compliance with the health safety rules in force. II – The doctors and, where appropriate, the midwives will screen potential donors. The aim of this selection is…

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Article R1211-14 of the French Public Health Code

The clinical selection of donors referred to in article R. 1211-13 is supplemented for any removal or collection of elements and products of the human body for therapeutic purposes by medical biology analyses intended to diagnose certain transmissible infectious diseases. In the event of a positive diagnosis, the grafting or use of human body products for therapeutic purposes is prohibited. The list of infectious diseases mentioned in the previous paragraph…

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Article R1211-15 of the French Public Health Code

When elements of the human body used on French territory are imported from a State in which one or more of the medical biology analyses mentioned in article R. 1211-14 are not performed, they are accompanied by a biological sample enabling these analyses to be performed in France prior to any therapeutic use. The infectious disease(s) likely to be the subject of this procedure are set by an order of…

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