Chapter VI: Social dialogue

When several trade union organisations affiliated to the same union have submitted competing lists for election to the same section of the national statutory commission, the director general of the Centre national de gestion shall inform the delegates of each of the lists within three days of the deadline for submitting the lists. The latter then have a period of three days in which to submit the necessary amendments or…

The ballot paper shall state whether the trade union organisation belongs to a national union of trade unions at the date of submission of candidatures. The ballot papers and the supporting documents shall be drawn up by order of the Director General of the National Management Centre. Voters may only vote for an entire list without deleting or adding names and without changing the order of presentation of the candidates….

A single polling station is set up for the elections to the national statutory commission. It shall comprise a chairman and a secretary appointed by the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion and a delegate from each list. If a list does not appoint a delegate, the polling station is validly composed without this delegate. If the chairman is absent or unable to attend, he is replaced by…

When the ballot takes place by post, the ballot papers, envelopes and supporting documents are produced by the administration at its own expense. Only electoral material supplied by the administration may be used. Each ballot paper is placed in a double envelope. The inner envelope must bear no words or distinguishing marks. The outer envelope shall bear the words: “Elections to the National Statutory Commission”, the college and voting section…

The polling station records the total number of voters and determines the total number of valid votes cast and the number of votes obtained by each list. It shall determine the electoral quotient by dividing the total number of valid votes cast by the number of full representatives to be elected. Each trade union organisation shall be allocated as many full staff representative seats as the number of votes received…

A report of the electoral operations is drawn up by the polling station and immediately sent to the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion and to the agents authorised to represent the lists of candidates.

For the purposes of measuring the representativeness of trade union organisations, where a joint list has been drawn up by trade union organisations, the votes cast are apportioned between them on the basis indicated by them and made public when the list was submitted. This breakdown is attached to the list of candidates. In the absence of such an indication, the distribution of votes is made in equal shares between…

Without prejudice to the provisions of the last paragraph of I of article 9 bis of the aforementioned law of 13 July 1983, any disputes regarding the validity of the electoral operations shall be referred, within five days of the announcement of the results, to the Director General of the National Management Centre and then, if necessary, to the administrative courts.