Établissements publics à caractère industriel et commercial

French scientific research facilities

University-grade institutes	Universities · Autonomous institutes · Écoles normales supérieures · Grands établissements

Public research labs	Cemagref (agriculture) · CNRS (fundamental sciences) · INED (demography) · INRA (agronomy) · IFSTTAR (transports and civil engineering) · INRIA (IT and automatic) · INSERM (medicine) · IRD (development)

Public industry	BRGM (geoscience) · CEA (nuclear industry) · IFREMER (maritime applications) · ONERA (aerospace)

An établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial or EPIC is a category of public undertaking in France, including some research institutes and infrastructure operators. Some other nations that were once French colonies, such as Algeria and Burkina Faso, have an identically named category of agencies.

Some current EPICs

Airport Basel-Mulhouse
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), the energy research agency
Ifremer, "Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer", an oceanographic institute
Monnaie de Paris, the French mint authority
ONF, the national forestry service
ONERA, the aerospace laboratory
Opéra national de Paris
RATP, the Paris public transit operator
Réseau ferré de France (RFF), the national railway infrastructure company
SNCF, the French national railway company
Voies navigables de France (VNF), the inland waterways authority

Former EPICs

Former public service operations which have been turned into companies governed by private law:

Aéroports de Paris (ADP)
EDF, the national electricity company
GDF, the national gas company
Seita, the former tobacco monopoly