Title XIIIa: Procedure applicable to health and environmental offences

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Article D47-6

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
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Updated 5 Nov 2023

People who hold a national diploma attesting to training of a duration at least equal to four years of higher education after the baccalaureate, who meet the conditions for access to the civil service and who can provide evidence of a minimum of four years' professional experience, may perform the duties of an assistant specialising in health or environmental matters at a judicial court referred to in Articles 706-2 and 706-2-3, if the diploma validates training in at least one of the following subjects:

I.-Human or animal health;

II.-Biomedical research;

III.-Food safety for humans or animals and consumer protection, in particular with regard to genetically modified organisms;

IV.Health safety and prophylaxis;

V.-Safety at work;

VI.-Health products, in particular pharmaceuticals, medical devices, products of human or animal origin or therapeutic products;

VII.-Hazardous products for human, animal or animal health;

VIII.Products hazardous to human or animal health or to the environment, including chemicals, biocides, substances in nano-particulate form and risk equipment;

VIII.-Management of environmental risks and in particular water, air, soil, waste, buildings, pollution at sea and on the coast, radioactivity, light and noise pollution and technological and natural risks;

IX.-Organisation and regulation of the health system and the health professions;

X.-.Organisation and regulation of agriculture and animal husbandry;

XI.-EU law, social law, consumer law, town planning law, customs law, public law, environmental law;

XII.-Human or veterinary medicine, pharmacy, engineering, architecture;

XIII.-Qualitative and quantitative management of water resources, preservation and restoration of aquatic environments, hydraulic structures and flood risk prevention;


XIV.-Regulations relating to natural areas, listed and classified sites, protected or regulated species of fauna and flora;


XV.-Organisation and regulation of hunting activities;


XVI.-Organisation and regulation of fishing and aquaculture activities in fresh and salt water;


XVII.-Regulations relating to advertising, signs and pre-signs.

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