Organisations for the collective management of the rights of phonogram and videogram producers and performers are entitled, within the limits of mandates given to them either by all or some of their members or by foreign organisations with the same object, to exercise collectively the rights provided for in articles L. 213-1 and L. 215-1 by concluding general contracts of common interest with users of phonograms or videograms with the aim of improving their distribution or promoting technical or economic progress.