Paragraph 1: Board of Directors

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Article R1418-13

French Public Health CodeIn force
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Updated 4 Nov 2023

The Board of Directors sets the general guidelines for the agency and deliberates on the following matters:

1° The general organisation of the agency, at national and local level, and its internal regulations;

2° Multiannual strategic guidelines, which may be included in a contract of objectives and resources between the agency and the State;

3° The agency's budget and its amending decisions, the financial account, the allocation of results and the employment table;

4° The general conditions of employment and recruitment of staff;

5° Contracts, public procurement contracts or agreements involving a sum in excess of a threshold which it determines or involving commitments for a period in excess of that which it fixes;

6° Investment programmes, as well as acquisitions, disposals, exchanges of buildings, leases and rentals relating thereto;

7° loans;

8° Acceptance and refusal of gifts and bequests in excess of a threshold it determines;

9° Fees for services rendered and remuneration of any kind owed to the Agency in excess of a threshold it determines;

10° Subsidies granted by the Agency in excess of a specified threshold;

11° Legal proceedings and settlements;

12° The Agency's participation in public interest groups, economic interest groups or any other bodies, whatever their legal nature;

13° The fixed amount of compensation defined in 2° of IV of article R. 1418-1-1;

14° The annual report on the activity of the agency mentioned in article L. 1418-1 ;

15° The maximum number of shifts mentioned in article R. 1418-22 and their amount.

With the exception of investment programmes, the Board of Directors may delegate the decisions mentioned in 6° and 11° of this article to the Chief Executive Officer. The latter shall report to the Board each year on the decisions taken.

Each year, the Managing Director shall inform the Board of Directors of the contracts, public procurement contracts or agreements concluded during the previous year under the conditions laid down in Article 133 of the Public Procurement Code, as well as of any new personal data processing operations implemented by the Agency.

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