For the assessment of the criteria defined in 2° and 3° of article L. 2152-2, professional employers’ organisations are taken into account if they pay a membership fee to a professional employers’ organisation applying for the establishment of its representativeness, in accordance with the rules laid down by the competent body of the applicant organisation, and according to procedures ensuring that member organisations are informed as to the organisation to which the membership fee is paid.
Organisations which, in accordance with the procedures laid down by a decision of the competent body of the applicant organisation, pay a reduced membership fee to take account of membership during the year or for any other reason provided for in the aforementioned decision, are also counted as members, provided that this reduction does not exceed by half the membership fee due in application of the rules mentioned in the previous paragraph.