Associations whose purpose is to develop the use of accountancy, to provide assistance in management matters, to provide them with an analysis of economic, accounting and financial information with regard to the prevention of economic and financial difficulties and to facilitate the fulfilment of their administrative and fiscal obligations by members of the liberal professions and holders of offices and charges may be approved under conditions laid down by decree in the Council of State.
The founders of these associations are either orders or legally constituted professional organisations of members of the professions mentioned in the first paragraph, or chartered accountants or companies registered with the order of chartered accountants.
Members of the liberal professions and holders of offices and positions may join these associations if they subscribe to the commitment made, under conditions laid down by decree, by the professional orders or organisations to which they belong, to improve knowledge of the incomes of their members.
All taxpayers with non-professional income taxed in the non-commercial profits category, subject to the controlled declaration regime by right or by option, and who have signed a commitment to improve knowledge of income, according to a model set by ministerial decree, may also join these approved associations.