A private medical biology laboratory is operated under its own name, or in the form of :
1° An association, foundation or other non-profit organisation;
2° A professional partnership governed by law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional partnerships;
3° a société d’exercice libéral governed by law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to a legislative or regulatory status or whose title is protected and to sociétés de participations financières de professions libérales;
4° a société coopérative governed by law no. 47-1775 of 10 September 1947 on the status of cooperation.