BOOK VII: Commercial jurisdictions and the organisation of commerce.

When the provisional budget of an establishment or the budget implemented during the previous financial year shows a deficit that is not covered by available surpluses, when compulsory expenditure has not been entered in the budget or has not been mandated, or when serious malfunctions are noted that jeopardise the financial equilibrium of the establishment, the competent authority, after applying an adversarial procedure, adopts the budget and may entrust the…

Any elected member of a public establishment in the network may be suspended or declared to have resigned automatically by the competent authority, after adversarial proceedings, in the event of serious misconduct in the performance of his duties. When circumstances compromise the operation of an establishment, the competent authority may order the suspension of its board or general assembly and appoint a provisional commission. If necessary, the board or general…

Any establishment in the network is obliged to grant protection to the chairman, treasurer, the elected representative deputising for them or having received a delegation from them or a former elected representative who has left these functions, when the person in question is the subject of criminal proceedings in connection with acts not having the character of misconduct detachable from the exercise of his functions. This protection is also due…

Without prejudice to specific legislative provisions, when a private-law or public-law person takes over all or part of the activity of a chamber of commerce and industry, whatever the legal classification of the transformation of the said activity, it shall offer the public-law employees employed by this chamber to carry out this activity a private-law contract or a public-law employment contract. The employment contract or employment contract offered shall include…

A decree in the Council of State shall specify the conditions for the application of this chapter, in particular the rules for the administrative and financial operation of the network’s establishments and the terms and conditions of the supervision exercised by the State.