Chapter I: Purpose of agreements.

This Book relates to the determination of collective relations between employers and employees. It defines the rules governing the exercise of employees’ right to collective bargaining on all their terms and conditions of employment, vocational training and working conditions, as well as their social guarantees.

The collective agreement is intended to deal with all the matters mentioned in article L. 2221-1, for all the professional categories concerned. The collective agreement deals with one or more specific subjects within this whole.

Title I of Book IX of the Social Security Code sets out the provisions for determining the collective guarantees available to employees in addition to those resulting from the organisation of social security.