For each judicial environmental officer, a request for authorisation is sent, on the proposal of the Director General of the French Biodiversity Office, to the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal in whose jurisdiction the headquarters of the department to which the judicial environmental officer belongs is located.
Judicial environmental officers may not effectively exercise the powers attached to this status or rely on it unless they are assigned to a post involving such exercise and by virtue of a decision by the public prosecutor at the court of appeal personally authorising them to do so. Any change of post will result in this authorisation lapsing.