Subject to the provisions of article L. 2192-15, a public undertaking within the meaning of this Code is any body with legal personality which carries out activities involving the production or marketing of goods or market services and over which one or more contracting authorities exercise, directly or indirectly, a dominant influence by virtue of the ownership of the undertaking, the financial participation or the rules which govern it.
The contracting authorities shall be deemed to exercise a dominant influence where they, directly or indirectly, hold a majority of the capital, have a majority of the voting rights or are entitled to appoint more than half of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory body.