The Conseil national de l’ordre may organise the grouping of departmental or interdepartmental councils by a decision taken at a plenary session, in the following situations:
1° Operational difficulties due to the demographic situation of the profession or a shortage of elected members of the Order;
2° Inability to carry out the public service missions entrusted to it.
This decision, adopted in plenary session, organises the grouping of departmental and interdepartmental councils and sets the date for the dissolution of the councils concerned. It determines the seat of the new interdepartmental council. It sets the date for the new elections.