In companies in which a specific electoral college is created for professional journalists and persons treated as such, where the agreement or convention only concerns journalists or persons treated as such, its validity is subject to its signature by, on the one hand, the employer or his representative and, on the other hand, one or more representative employee trade union organisations having received more than 50% of the votes cast in favour of representative organisations in this specific college in the first round of the most recent elections of full members to the social and economic committee, regardless of the number of voters.
The rules governing its validity are those set out in article L. 2232-12. The rates of 30% and 50% mentioned in the same article are assessed at the level of the college of journalists.