An établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial or EPIC is a category of public undertaking in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, including some research institutes and infrastructure operators. Some other nations that were once French colonies, such as Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

 and Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

, have an identically named category of agencies.

Some current EPICs

• Airport Basel-Mulhouse
  EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
  EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is an international airport northwest of Basel , southeast of Mulhouse , and south of Freiburg . It is located in France, on the administrative territory of the commune of Saint-Louis near the Swiss and German borders...
  
  
• Commissariat à l'énergie atomique
  Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
  The Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives or CEA, is a French “public establishment related to industrial and commercial activities” whose mission is to develop all applications of nuclear power, both civilian and military...
  
   (CEA), the energy research agency
• Ifremer
  Ifremer
  Ifremer, standing for French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea is an oceanographic institution in France.- Scope of works :...
  
  , "Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer", an oceanographic institute
• Monnaie de Paris
  Monnaie de Paris
  The Monnaie de Paris or, more administratively speaking, the "Direction of Coins and Medals", is an administration of the French government charged with issuing coins as well as producing medals and other similar items. Many ancient coins are housed there...
  
  , 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
  Réseau Ferré de France
  Réseau Ferré de France , , owns and maintains the French national railway network. The trains are operated by SNCF, the national railway company, but due to European Union Directive 91/440, the French government was required to separate train operations from the railway infrastructure.Unlike other...
  
   (RFF), the national railway infrastructure company
• SNCF
  SNCF
  The SNCF , is France's national state-owned railway company. SNCF operates the country's national rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network...
  
  , the French national railway company
• Voies navigables de France
  Voies navigables de France
  is the French navigation authority responsible for the management of the majority of France's inland waterways network and the associated facilities—towpaths, commercial and leisure ports, lock-keeper's houses and other structures. VNF was established in 1991 and took over the responsibility for...
  
   (VNF), the inland waterways authority

Former EPICs

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

• Aéroports de Paris
  Aéroports de Paris
  Aéroports de Paris or ADP is the airport authority that owns and manages the fourteen civil airports and airfields in the Île-de-France area. Among its notable airports are Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Orly Airport and Le Bourget Airport...
  
   (ADP)
• EDF
  Électricité de France
  Électricité de France S.A. is the second largest French utility company. Headquartered in Paris, France, with €65.2 billion in revenues in 2010, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of 120,000+ megawatts of generation capacity in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.EDF is one of...
  
  , the national electricity company
• GDF
  Gaz de France
  Gaz de France was a French company which produced, transported and sold natural gas around the world, especially in France, its main market. The company was also particularly active in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other European countries. Through its part-owned Belgian subsidiary SPE...
  
  , the national gas company
• Seita
  SEITA
  SEITA , was the former French state-owned tobacco monopoly. It merged in 1999 with its Spanish equivalent, Tabacalera, to form Altadis.- See also :...
  
  , the former tobacco monopoly