Where permitted by an international framework agreement, the regional health projects of border regional health agencies and regional health agencies in overseas regions organise cooperation on health and medico-social matters with the authorities of the neighbouring country by means of cooperation agreements. To this end, the regional projects of these agencies include objectives and actions that take account of the cross-border dimension in their health and medico-social policies.
When a cooperation agreement mentioned in the first paragraph is intended to meet specific defence needs or must be implemented by the armed forces health service to contribute to health policy, the Minister for Defence is also a signatory.
The regional health and autonomy conference(s) and the territorial health councils concerned are informed of the cooperation agreements mentioned in the first paragraph and of their implementation.