Members of the Committee, other than the Chairman, who are involved in a complaint or claim may not sit when the Committee is deliberating on the matter in question.
A full member who is unable to attend or who is involved in a complaint or claim is replaced by his alternate.
If the mediator and his alternate are simultaneously concerned by a complaint or claim, their mission is carried out by an agent designated by the legal representative, in the case of the mediator who is not a doctor, and by a practitioner designated by the chairman of the establishment’s medical committee, the medical advisory committee, the medical commission or the medical conference, in the case of the mediator who is a doctor. In the establishments mentioned in VI of article R. 1112-81, the practitioner is appointed by the legal representative of the establishment.