Title III: Legal status, resources and means

The employees’ trade union organisations that are representative at national and cross-industry level and those whose statutory vocation is of a national and cross-industry nature and which have received more than 3% of the votes cast in the elections provided for in 3° of article L. 2122-9 collect the sums due to the territorial organisations and trade union organisations that are representative at branch level and are affiliated to them….

I. – The fund referred to in article L. 2135-9 is managed by a joint association, administered by a board of directors made up of representatives of employee trade unions and professional employers’ organisations that are representative at national and cross-industry level. Within this board, each professional employers’ organisation has a number of votes proportional to its audience at national and cross-industry level. To assess this audience, the number of…

The employees’ trade union organisations and the employers’ professional organisations receiving financing from the Joint Fund draw up a written annual report detailing the use made of the appropriations received. They make this report public and send it to the fund within six months of the end of the financial year to which the report relates. If the report is not sent within the time limit stipulated in the second…

Bodies that are managed by a majority of employees’ trade union organisations and employers’ professional organisations that appear on the list referred to in 2° of I of article L. 2135-10 and whose Board of Directors has decided to pay a contribution to the joint fund do not provide any direct or indirect funding to employees’ trade union organisations and employers’ professional organisations, with the exception of the contribution referred…

Unless otherwise provided, the conditions for the application of this section shall be determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.