Management control, which must be entrusted to natural persons, and auditing of the accounts shall be carried out under the conditions laid down in the grouping’s constitutive contract.
However, when a grouping issues bonds under the conditions provided for in Article L. 251-7, management control must be exercised by one or more natural persons appointed by the General Meeting. Their term of office and powers are determined in the contract.
The audit of the accounts in the groupings referred to in the previous paragraph and in groupings with one hundred or more employees at the close of a financial year must be carried out by one or more statutory auditors chosen from the list referred to in Article L. 822-1 and appointed by the General Meeting for a term of six financial years. The provisions of this Code relating to incompatibilities, powers, duties, obligations, liability, recusal, dismissal and remuneration of the statutory auditors of public limited companies, as well as the sanctions provided for by Article L. 242-27 are applicable to the commissaires (statutory auditors) of economic interest groupings, subject to the rules specific to such groupings.
In the cases provided for in the two preceding paragraphs, the provisions of articles L. 242-25, L. 242-26 et. L. 242-28, L. 245-8 to L. 245-17 are applicable to the group’s directors, to natural persons who are directors of member companies or permanent representatives of legal persons who are directors of these companies.