The grouping’s accounts shall be kept and its management carried out in accordance with the rules of private law with the exception of the following three cases:
1° Where the contract setting up the consortium provides otherwise;
2° Where the consortium is set up exclusively by French legal entities governed by public law;
3° Where the consortium is responsible for monitoring and managing programmes receiving European funding.
In the latter three cases, the provisions of I of Article 7 of Decree no. 2012-91 of 26 January 2012 relating to public interest groupings are applicable.
In these cases, the grouping’s accounting officer is appointed by order of the Budget Minister.