Last updated: December 22, 2021
Enforcement Authorities
Public health inspectors; health engineers; inspectors of health and social action; designated staff under the regional health agency (Ministry of Health)
Article L3515-1 of the Code of Public Health authorizes officers mentioned in Art. L1312-1 to enforce compliance with the smoking ban. Article L1312-1 authorizes “officers and agents of the judicial police” and agents mentioned in Arts. L1421-1 and L1435-7. Article L1421-1 authorizes public health inspectors, health engineers, and inspectors of health and social action, within their respective competencies, and Art. L1435-7 authorizes “designated staff under the regional health agency.”
Authorized and deputized inspectors and controllers (Ministry of Labor)
The law authorizes the agents mentioned in Arts. L8112-1, L8112-3, and L8112-5 of the Labor Code – inspectors and controllers authorized and deputized – to monitor the observance of the provisions of the smoking ban and to undertake to investigate and confirm infractions.
Police officers and agents (Ministry of the Interior)
Article L3515-1 of the Code of Public Health authorizes officers mentioned in Art. L1312-1 to enforce compliance with the smoking ban. Article L1312-1 authorizes “officers and agents of the judicial police”.
Municipal police officers, rural policemen, security officers in Paris, and officers of the city of Paris
The Code of Public Health authorizes municipal police officers, rural policemen, security officers in Paris as well as officers of the city of Paris to “establish through written reports infractions of Articles L. 3512-8 (the smoking ban).”
