At the request of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé or the Director General of the regional health agency, or on his own initiative, the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator shall obtain from the relevant haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent(s) any information that blood or health establishments collect and hold in application of this chapter.
On the basis of this information, the coordinator carries out or arranges for the haemovigilance correspondents to carry out any research useful for haemovigilance and concerning in particular:
1° The identification of any unit of labile blood product prepared from a donation ;
2° The identification of all units administered to a given patient or the search for any adverse reactions linked, or likely to be linked, to the administration of a given unit or type of labile blood product;
3° Epidemiological data concerning the blood donors from whom the units of labile blood products referred to in 1° and 2° are obtained.
While respecting the anonymity of donors and recipients, the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator sends the results of the investigations provided for above to the director general of the regional health agency and to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.
A decision by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, taken after consultation with the Etablissement français du sang and the Armed Forces Blood Transfusion Centre, may lay down the procedures for the exchange of information relating to these investigations, between the establishments and the coordinator on the one hand, and between the coordinator and the Agency on the other.