Chapter II: Skills providers

Self-employed workers, members of the liberal professions and non-salaried professions may set up training insurance funds for non-salaried workers in the professions or professional branches in question. These funds have legal personality. They may, where appropriate, be created within a skills operator mentioned in article L. 6332-1-1, in accordance with procedures defined by decree, and be managed in a specific section. The training insurance funds for non-salaried workers are approved…

The training insurance funds for non-salaried workers are financed by resources generated by consultation between the professional organisations concerned or the consular chambers.

Two fractions of the funds collected, the amount of which is determined by an order of the minister responsible for professional training, are allocated to financing the personal training account for self-employed workers and to professional development advice.

A branch agreement may provide that the part of the collection not allocated to the financing of the personal training account for self-employed workers and the professional development advice is managed within a specific section of a skills operator mentioned in article L. 6332-1-1. The designated skills operator is the one approved to receive the funds mentioned in c of 3° of article L. 6123-5 for the professional branch concerned….

If they are not already financed by a body responsible for financing continuing professional training for salaried employees or jobseekers, training expenses incurred by the beneficiary of the introductory management course provided for inarticle 59 of law no. 73-1193 of 27 December 1973 on the orientation of trade and craft industries are eligible for financing by the training insurance fund, provided that the beneficiary is registered in the trade and…