French Public Health Code
In forceThe members of the regional unions of healthcare professionals are elected, for a term set by decree, by healthcare professionals in private practice under the conventional system, by proportional list voting with the highest average.
All voters are eligible. The lists of candidates are presented by health profession trade union organisations that have been in existence for at least two years from the legal filing of their articles of association and are present on national territory in at least half of the départements and half of the regions.
The electorate of each regional union of healthcare professionals is made up of the members of the profession concerned practising in the region.
The electors of the regional union of doctors are divided into two colleges comprising respectively :
1° General practitioners ;
2° Specialist doctors.
By way of derogation from the first paragraph, for professions whose number of members practising on a self-employed basis under the contractual system on national territory does not exceed a certain threshold, provision may be made, under conditions laid down by decree, for the representatives of these professions in the regional unions of health professionals to be appointed by the trade union organisations recognised as representative at national level pursuant to article L. 162-33 of the Social Security Code.
Unless otherwise stipulated, the procedures for applying this article, in particular the organisation and funding of elections for members of the regional unions of health professionals, are set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.
