Civil & Administrative

#SFHE2609603AOrder of April 10, 2026 on Delegation of Signature (Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation, and Statistics)

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🇬🇧 English

This French order delegates signature authority within the Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation, and Statistics. It specifies which officials can sign public contracts, certifications, and other legal documents, depending on their role and the sub-directorate they belong to. This affects various departments within the ministry by clarifying operational hierarchies and responsibilities.

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Key Changes

  • Delegates signature authority to specified officials within departments
  • Clarifies roles for signing public contracts and certifications
  • Abolishes the previous delegation order from August 2025

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Public contracts concluded through formalized, adapted, or negotiated procedures must be signed by the contracting authority or its representative at a minimum level equivalent to a department head (chef de service).

Contracting authority and authorized representatives of the Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation, and Statistics
operational
high

Purchase orders (bons de commande) executed under signed and notified public contracts must be signed only within available budget limits by designated bureau chiefs in the sub-directorates of solidarity observation, health observation, and economic synthesis.

Bureau chiefs: Cabannes, Marc, Espinasse, Lhommeau, Vinceneux (solidarity); Cazenave-Lacroutz, Leroux, Costemalle, Bonnet, Nicolau (health); Vignolles, Papuchon, Didier (economic synthesis)
operational
high

Service completion certification acts (actes de certification du service fait) for expenses must be signed only by designated bureau chiefs within their respective fields of intervention.

Designated bureau chiefs in sub-directorates (Articles 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
operational
high

Valérie Darriau, Fanny Mikol, and Clément Dherbecourt are authorized to sign acts, decrees, decisions, or conventions other than international agreements on behalf of ministers responsible for health, solidarity, and labor, limited to their respective sub-directorate attributions.

Valérie Darriau (solidarity observation), Fanny Mikol (health observation), Clément Dherbecourt (economic synthesis)
operational
high

BRHAG officials (Cendrine Ambroise, Francis Gabriel, François-Xavier Habay) must sign all acts related to their attributions on behalf of ministers responsible for health, solidarity, and labor, excluding decrees.

BRHAG bureau chief and designated adjuncts
operational

Affected Parties

Ministry departments and their officialsPublic procurement processes

Tags

delegation,administrative,public procurement