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Minister of State, Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Land Management, and Minister of Health and Sport,
Having regard to the international health regulations (2005) adopted by the fifty-eighth World Health Assembly on 23 May 2005;
Given the public health code, includingarticle L. 3131-1 ;
Vu le Decree No. 2007-1073 Publication of the International Health Regulations (2005) adopted by the fifty-eighth World Health Assembly on 23 May 2005;
See?5 November 2008 denoting ports, airports and railway and road stations open to international traffic whose areas accessible to the public may give rise to the application of Article 78-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Article 67 quater of the Customs Code;
Considering the national plan for prevention and control "Influenza Pandemia" No. 150 / SGDN / PSE / PPS of 20 February 2009 and its technical data sheets;
Considering the epidemiological point of the Institute of Health Watch dated 17 June 2009;
Considering the epidemiological situation in the world, and in particular the fact that, according to the World Health Organization, more than 35,000 people have been contaminated by a new influenza A/H1N1 virus and that more than 160 of them have died;
Considering that the World Health Organization has declared the implementation of phase 6 of the global influenza preparedness plan;
Considering that more than 100 people have been contaminated in France to date;
Considering the pathogenic and contagious nature of this new influenza A/H1N1 virus and its serious health threat;
Considering that the French Government has declared the implementation of phase 5A of the national plan for prevention and control "Influenza Pandemia";
Considering the need to take appropriate measures to monitor and protect the population against the serious health threat posed by the new influenza A/H1N1 virus;
Considering that the Director General of the World Health Organization has described this new influenza A/H1N1 virus as an "international public health emergency", in accordance with Article 12 of the International Health Regulations (2005);
Considering that, in accordance with the provisions of the International Health Regulations (2005), the entry points of the territory must be able to ensure the supervision and care of passengers in the event of an "international public health emergency",
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Airport operators open to international traffic designate a coordinator responsible for information exchanges with the territorially competent prefect.
The coordinator shall transmit to the territorially competent prefect, at his request, the state of international air links at the departure or arrival of the airport.
The state of the international air links mentioned in the previous paragraph may be limited to certain geographic areas or certain states by decision of the Minister for Health. This decision is then forwarded by the territorially competent prefect to the coordinator of each airport designated in the first paragraph.
Airport operators designated in section 1 of this Order organize information to travellers on hygiene precautions to be respected in order to avoid contamination by the new influenza A/H1N1 virus and related to the conduct to be held in the presence of symptoms characteristic of this new virus, on any supports available to them.
They include clearly visible and, where appropriate, available to travellers, by all appropriate means, information materials transmitted by the health authorities.
Air carriers organize the broadcast, during the flight of an aircraft, of information messages transmitted by the health authorities on hygiene precautions to be followed in order to avoid contamination by the new influenza A/H1N1 virus and the conduct to be held in the presence of symptoms characteristic of this new virus, by any appropriate means.
When an international flight passenger on an aircraft to an airport referred to in section 1 presents evocative signs of an influenza syndrome, the air carrier organizes traceability and distributes to that effect plugs and a driver's leaflet to be held in the presence of symptoms characteristic of the new influenza A/H1N1 virus to flight passengers.
The territorially competent prefect organizes the collection of traceability sheets. It may require, to do so, the assistance of air carriers.
A traceability card template is sent by the health authorities to all coordinators designated in Article 1. The coordinator is responsible for transmitting this model to all air carriers present at the airport.
Traceability sheets are delivered to the health authorities or archived for a maximum of 15 days by the airport manager concerned under security and confidentiality conditions appropriate to their content.
The measure provided for in the first paragraph may be limited to certain geographic areas or States by a decision of the Minister for Health.
Upon identification of a suspicious case, the flight command shall notify, through the air carrier or air control, the operator of the arrival airport in order to be organized by the health authority to take care of the patient and, if necessary, other occupants of the aircraft. Airport operators immediately transmit to the health authorities any information relating to a suspicious case of the new influenza A/H1N1 virus.
Paris airports - Charles-de-Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Lyon - Saint-Exupéry, Nice-Côte d'Azur, Marseille-Provence, Bordeaux-Mérignac, Toulouse-Blagnac, Nantes-Atlantique, Bastia, Martinique-Aimé Cézaire, Pointe-à-Pitre - Le Raizet, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Réunion, Cayenne-Ro
Health authorities can access all facilities at these points of entry.
The points of entry referred to in the first paragraph shall have spaces suitable for segregation or observation for public health purposes.
If a passenger with evocative signs of influenza syndrome associated with the A/H1N1 influenza virus is detected on board an aircraft during an international flight, the prefect of the department in which this means of transport is to land may order the discharge of this means of transport to one of the points of entry designated in Article 6 of this Order in consultation with the territorially competent prefect.
The territorially competent prefect is empowered to take all necessary measures to implement articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this Decree.
The measures set out in this Order are lifted by a joint order of the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Health to terminate the Minister as soon as they are no longer justified.
Thearrested on 29 April 2009amended on airport obligations open to international traffic and border health control is repealed.
The Director General of Health, the Director General of Civil Aviation and the Department Prefects are responsible, each with respect to it, for the execution of this Order, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
Done in Paris, June 19, 2009.
Minister of Health and Sports,
For the Minister and by delegation:
The Director General of Health,
D. Houssin
Minister of State, Minister of Ecology,
of energy, sustainable development
and landscaping,
For the Minister and by delegation:
Director General
Civil Aviation,
P. Gandil
