The National Council of the Association carries out, at national level, the general duties of the Association as defined in article L. 4321-14. It sets, calls for and collects the fees payable during the first quarter of the current calendar year by each natural person or legal entity entered on the roll. It also determines the proportions of this fee to be allocated at departmental, regional and national level. However, the membership fee is not payable by a masseur-physiotherapist who is a medical reservist or who comes under the provisions of article L. 4143-1 of the Defence Code, provided that he or she only practises the profession in this capacity.
It manages the Association’s assets, defines its property policy and monitors its implementation. It may create or subsidise organisations of interest to the profession, as well as mutual aid organisations.
It approves and monitors the management of the departmental, interdepartmental, regional and interregional councils. It receives their budgetary and accounting documents. The National Council may request any other document it deems necessary. The procedures for this validation and control are set out in the treasury regulations drawn up by the national council and applicable to all ordinal bodies. The councils must inform the National Council in advance of the creation and report to it on all the bodies dependent on these councils.
It pays the departmental, interdepartmental, regional and interregional councils a sum intended to ensure harmonisation of their costs at national level.
A statutory auditor shall certify the combined accounts of the councils of the Order on an annual basis.
The national council authorises its president to take legal action.
It may, before all courts, exercise all the rights reserved to civil parties in relation to acts directly or indirectly prejudicial to the collective interest of the profession of masseur-physiotherapist, including in the case of threats or violence committed because of membership of this profession.