Établissements publics à caractère industriel et commercial

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