Section 3: Operating licences

The training organisations mentioned in the fifth paragraph of article L. 3332-1-1 must obtain approval, issued for a period of five years by the prefect of the département in which their registered office is located or, in Paris, by the police prefect or, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, by the Bouches-du-Rhône police prefect, under the conditions and in accordance with the procedures set out in articles R. 3332-5 to R….

On completion of the training referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 3332-1-1, the approved body will issue a certificate, known as an “operating licence”, to the persons who have taken it, in accordance with a standardised model. This certificate is valid as a licence to operate within the framework mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 3332-1-1 and within the framework of the activity of letting…

Approval is granted on the basis of verification that: -compliance of the training programme proposed by the organisation with the provisions of articles L. 3332-1-1 and R. 3332-7 the training programme is updated whenever there are changes in legislation and regulations. This programme includes an explanation of the prefectoral or municipal regulations applicable at local level with regard to opening hours for public houses or bans on the sale of…

Applications for approval must include : – the name, legal status and address of the organisation ; – extract no. 3 from the criminal record of the head of the organisation, dated less than three months before the date of application; – a form in which the organisation certifies its economic independence from any establishment in the cafés, hotels, restaurants and discotheques sector, and from any company or organisation operating…

I.-The training programme referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 3332-1-1 for the issue of a business licence consists of at least twenty hours of instruction spread over at least three days. These courses do not include any form of propaganda, advertising or direct or indirect promotion of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products. By way of derogation from the first paragraph, if the person concerned has ten years’…

At the end of each year of validity of the approval, the approved training organisation will send the authority referred to in Article R. 3332-4 a report containing the following information in particular: 1° A list of training locations by department ; 2° The number of sessions organised; 3° The number of candidates trained and the number of certificates, within the meaning of article R. 3332-4-1, issued at national and…

In order to monitor the operation of the approved body, the Minister of the Interior and the Prefect of the département or, in Paris, the Prefect of the Police or, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, the Prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhône Police, shall have access to the premises used for training and to documents relating to such training. If the conditions for issuing authorisation mentioned in article R. 3332-5, the criterion…