The professional trade unions and their associations and the employees’ or employers’ associations mentioned in Article L. 2135-1 which control one or more legal entities within the meaning of Article L. 233-16 of the French Commercial Code, without having a membership or affiliation relationship with them, are required, under conditions determined by decree issued after obtaining the opinion of the French Accounting Standards Authority :
a) prepare consolidated accounts. Article L. 823-2 of the Commercial Code does not apply when the resources of the group made up of the professional trade unions and their unions and the employees’ or employers’ associations and the legal entities they control do not exceed, at the end of a financial year, the threshold mentioned in Article L. 2135-6 of this Code;
b) or to provide, in an appendix to their own accounts, the accounts of these legal entities, as well as information on the nature of the controlling relationship. In this case, the accounts of these legal entities must have been the subject of a statutory audit, except where the resources of the group constituted by the professional trade unions and their unions and the employees’ or employers’ associations and the legal entities they control do not exceed, at the close of a financial year, the threshold mentioned in the same article L. 2135-6.