Chapter II: Administration of establishments in the network of chambers of commerce and industry

In each public institution in the network, the general meeting of elected members determines the institution’s guidelines and action programme. To this end, it deliberates on all matters relating to the purpose of the establishment, in particular the budget, accounts and internal regulations. It may delegate powers relating to its administration and day-to-day operation to other bodies of the institution. The Chairman is the legal representative of the institution. He…

An objectives and performance contract between the State, represented by the responsible minister, and CCI France sets out the priority missions of the network of chambers of commerce and industry financed by the chamber tax. This contract of objectives and performance contains quantified activity, performance and results indicators tailored to the priorities set. Agreements on objectives and resources concluded between the State, the regional chambers of commerce and industry and…

Public establishments in the network are required to appoint at least one statutory auditor and, when the conditions defined in the second paragraph of I of article L. 823-1 are present, an alternate chosen from the list referred to in Article L. 822-1, who shall perform their duties under the conditions laid down by the provisions of Books II and VIII subject to the rules specific to them. The Statutory…

The competent authority shall ensure the proper functioning of the network’s establishments. It attends their deliberative bodies as of right. Certain deliberations are subject to its approval under conditions laid down by regulation. The competent authority may authorise a public establishment of the network to withdraw from a mixed syndicate if its continued participation in this syndicate compromises the financial situation of this establishment.

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.