I.-Voting rights at the General Meeting are defined as follows:
1° The total voting rights of the chairmen of the territorial, local and departmental chambers of commerce and industry of Ile-de-France as well as the chambers of the overseas collectivities governed by Article 74 of the Constitution and New Caledonia are equal to the total voting rights of the chairmen of the regional chambers of commerce and industry ;
2° Each chairman of the regional, local and departmental chambers of commerce and industry of Ile-de-France and of the chambers of overseas collectivities governed by Article 74 of the Constitution and of New Caledonia has one vote ;
3° The chairmen of the regional chambers of commerce and industry have, under conditions defined by order of the minister responsible for overseeing the chambers of commerce and industry, a number of votes established in proportion to the economic weight of their regional chamber of commerce and industry, determined on the basis of the economic study referred to in Article R. 713-66 ;
4° In regions where there is only one territorial chamber of commerce and industry, referred to as a regional chamber of commerce and industry, its president has the combined votes referred to in 2° and 3° of this article.
II.-Any member of the general meeting, chairman or alternate appointed pursuant to article R. 711-57, who is unable to attend the meeting, may give a chairman or alternate of his choice written authority to vote on his behalf. Each proxy may only have proxies from representatives of chambers within the jurisdiction of the chamber of the region to which they are attached or, in the case of presidents of overseas chambers, from a president of another overseas chamber.
By way of derogation from the first paragraph, when votes are taken concerning individuals, each member of CCI France has only one vote, which he may entrust by proxy to another president or alternate from the same regional constituency, or, for a president of an overseas chamber, to a president of another overseas chamber.