In the event of the absence or failure of employees’ or employers’ organisations to act, resulting in the persistent impossibility of concluding an agreement or arrangement in a given branch of activity or territorial sector, the Minister responsible for labour may, at the request of one of the representative organisations concerned or on his own initiative, unless opposed in writing and with reasons by the majority of the members of the National Commission for Collective Bargaining, Employment and Vocational Training:
1° To make compulsory in the territorial sector in question a branch agreement already extended to a different territorial sector;
2° To make obligatory in the professional sector in question all or part of a professional agreement or arrangement already extended to another professional sector;
3° To make an extended cross-industry agreement binding in one or more branches of activity outside its scope.
In the cases provided for in 1° and 2°, the professional or territorial sector covered by the extension order must present conditions similar to those of the sector in which the extension has already been granted, in terms of the jobs performed.
Where the extension of an agreement or arrangement has been decreed in accordance with the preceding paragraphs, make their subsequent addenda or annexes, which have themselves been extended, compulsory in the sector or sectors covered by this extension.