I.-The approved joint bodies are known as “skills operators”. Their role is to:
1° To provide funding for apprenticeship and professionalisation contracts, in accordance with the levels of funding set by the branches ;
2° To provide technical support to member branches to establish forward-looking employment and skills management and to determine the levels of funding for apprenticeship contracts and professionalisation contracts;
3° Providing technical support to the professional branches for their certification mission mentioned in article L. 6113-4;
4° Providing a local service for very small, small and medium-sized businesses, making it possible to improve information and access to vocational training for employees of these businesses and to support these businesses in analysing and defining their vocational training needs, particularly with regard to economic and technical changes in their sector of activity;
5° Promoting the training methods set out in the second and third paragraphs of article L. 6313-2 among companies;
6° To finance training in health, safety and working conditions for members of the staff delegation of the social and economic committee and for the referent provided for in the last paragraph of article L. 2314-1 within companies with fewer than fifty employees;
6° Informing companies about the challenges of sustainable development and supporting them in their plans to adapt to the ecological transition, in particular by analysing and defining their skills needs.
II.-Skills operators may enter into :
1° With the State :
a) Agreements, the purpose of which is in particular to define the proportion of their resources that they can allocate to the co-financing of actions in favour of vocational training and skills development for employees and jobseekers ;
b) A framework cooperation agreement defining the conditions of their participation in the improvement and promotion of initial technological and vocational training, in particular apprenticeships, as well as the promotion of trades. This agreement may, where appropriate, be concluded jointly with the organisations covering a branch or sector of activity;
2° With the regions, agreements under the conditions set out in article L. 6211-3.