For the application of the provisions of 2° of article R. 712-2, the prefect appoints by decree, for a renewable period of two years, a person and his alternate whom he chooses from a departmental list, comprising four names, sent to him by the French Association of Credit Institutions and Investment Firms, as well as a person and his alternate proposed, under the same conditions, by family or consumer associations. These associations must be approved under the provisions of article L. 811-1 granted by order of the prefect of the department in which their registered office is located or are affiliated to a national association that has itself been approved.
If the prefect finds that one of these persons and his or her alternate is absent without legitimate reason from three consecutive meetings of the commission, he or she may terminate their mandate before the two-year period has expired. He will then appoint another person and an alternate chosen from the same list.