The Commission d’examen des pratiques commerciales is made up of one deputy and one senator as well as twenty-four full members and sixteen alternate members distributed as follows:
1° One honorary magistrate from the administrative order, one honorary magistrate from the judicial order and one commercial court judge, from among whom the vice-chairman of the commission is appointed if the chairman is not a member of a court. The vice-chairman deputises for the chairman in all his functions;
2° Eight members representing the agricultural and fisheries production and processing sectors as well as the industrial and craft sectors and processors, or their alternates;
3° Eight members representing wholesalers and distributors, chosen from professional organisations or companies, or their alternates;
4° Three personalities qualified in problems relating to industry-trade relations;
5° Two representatives of the administration: the Director General of Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control and the Director General of Business Economic and Environmental Performance, or their representatives;
The members mentioned in 1° to 4° are appointed for three years by joint order of the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for Trade.