#2026-365France updates rules for maritime officers and sustainable development technicians
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This decree updates career and fitness rules for two French public-service bodies working in maritime affairs. It confirms that certain maritime officers and sustainable development technicians must wear uniforms and may be required to carry weapons when they perform navigation, maritime safety, and enforcement duties. It also creates clearer medical fitness checks for these roles, including checks at recruitment, regular follow-ups, and extra reviews after illness, hospitalization, or workplace accidents. Staff found permanently unfit for these operational maritime roles must be supported into another suitable specialty.
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Key Changes
- Requires uniforms and grade insignia for relevant maritime officers and technicians.
- Allows certain navigation and maritime safety staff to be required to carry weapons under rules set by ministerial orders.
- Introduces medical fitness checks at recruitment, periodically during service, and after illness, hospitalization, or workplace accidents.
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What this law requires
Syndics des gens de mer must wear the uniform and grade insignia under conditions set by order of the minister responsible for the sea.
Syndics des gens de mer in the navigation and safety specialty may be required to carry a weapon when applicable, under the conditions of Article R. 312-24 of the Internal Security Code and implementing ministerial orders.
Syndics des gens de mer in the navigation and safety specialty may not be appointed as trainees, admitted to exercise, or allowed to continue exercising that specialty unless their specific health conditions for navigation, policing duties, and where relevant weapon carrying have been verified by an authorized medical examination.
Health fitness checks for syndics des gens de mer in the navigation and safety specialty must be performed at recruitment and at least every two years, or annually for agents serving in coastal maritime affairs units or on maritime affairs patrol vessels.
Additional health fitness checks for syndics des gens de mer in the navigation and safety specialty must be carried out after sick leave causing more than 21 days of work stoppage, after any hospitalization, after any service accident, or upon request by the administrative authority, the agent, or the competent doctor.