French Public Health Code
In forceI.-Experts may apply to be included on the national list of medical accident experts if they can prove that they have a qualification that includes an assessment of their knowledge and professional practices.
This registration is valid for five years and may be renewed. Renewal is subject to a new assessment of knowledge and professional practice.
However, a probationary entry may be made in advance for a limited period.
The updated national list is sent each year to the Conseil d'Etat, the administrative courts of appeal and the administrative tribunals on the one hand, and to the Cour de cassation, the courts of appeal and the judicial tribunals on the other. It is available to the public at the court secretariats.
Persons registered on the national list of medical accident experts may only refer to themselves as experts approved by the National Commission for Medical Accidents, and only for as long as they are on the list.
Experts registered on the national list of medical accident experts are subject, within the framework of their mission, to the same obligations of independence and impartiality as experts registered on one of the lists instituted byarticle 2 of law no. 71-498 of 29 June 1971 relating to legal experts.
II - The National Commission for Medical Accidents may, on its own initiative, at the request of or after receiving the opinion of a Regional Commission for Conciliation and Compensation, remove an expert from the list in the event of a clear breach of his obligations, acts contrary to honour or probity, or if he is no longer able to carry out his activities normally. This disbarment can only be pronounced after the interested party, who may be assisted by a lawyer, has been called upon to formulate his observations. An expert may also be struck off at his own request.
A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall lay down the procedures for the application of this article, in particular the cases in which experts are subject to probationary registration.
