The French Accreditation Committee shall notify the laboratory of the accreditation decision no later than twenty weeks after the actual opening of the laboratory. Within the same time limit, the French Accreditation Committee shall send this accreditation decision to the bodies mentioned in Article L. 6221-6.
If the French Accreditation Committee does not respond within twenty weeks of the actual opening of the laboratory, the application for accreditation is deemed to have been rejected.