In professional sectors, trade union organisations are representative if they :
1° Satisfy the criteria of Article L. 2121-1 ;
2° Have a balanced territorial coverage within the branch;
3° Have received at least 8% of the votes cast resulting from the addition at branch level, on the one hand, of the votes cast in the first round of the most recent elections of holders to the social and economic committees, whatever the number of voters, and, on the other hand, of the votes cast in the ballot concerning companies with fewer than eleven employees under the conditions provided for in articles L. 2122-10-1 et seq. The audience is measured every four years.