Applications for authorisation of the laboratories mentioned in II of Article R. 1321-48 and II of Article R. 1321-50 shall be sent to the Minister for Health.
An order of the Minister for Health, issued after consultation with the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail, lays down the administrative and technical conditions for the accreditation of these laboratories, relating in particular to their human and material resources and the analysis methods used.
The authorisation of laboratories may concern laboratories whose registered office is in another Member State of the European Union and which can demonstrate that they have equivalent resources and use equivalent methods.
Silence on an application for authorisation for more than six months is equivalent to a decision to accept it.