The National Council, a non-profit organisation with legal personality, is responsible for :
1° Examining, at national level, questions relating to the exercise of the function of sworn goods broker and, where appropriate, giving the public authorities its opinion on these questions;
2° Giving its opinion to the appeal courts on applications for the functions of sworn goods broker;
3° Keeping up to date, at national level, the list of brokers registered with the courts of appeal, possibly grouping them by speciality;
4° Organising aptitude examinations;
5° Preventing and conciliating all disputes between sworn merchandise brokers as well as receiving complaints made against brokers and communicating them, where appropriate, to the public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction.