The person to whom the request is addressed will forward the information requested without delay to the person designated under the conditions set out in the previous article, by means which guarantee its confidentiality.
When the above-mentioned information is sent to the Agence nationale de santé publique in a sealed envelope, it is sent in a double envelope, the inner envelope being marked “secret médical” or “secret industriel”.
When this information is sent to the Agence nationale de santé publique by teletransmission, it must first be encrypted. It is then transmitted after the recipient of the request has affixed his or her electronic signature in accordance with the provisions of Decree no. 2017-1416 of 28 September 2017 on electronic signatures.
The operations that the Agence nationale de santé publique must carry out in order to use the information received by teletransmission are governed by the provisions of Chapter IV of Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on Data Processing, Data Files and Individual Liberties.