Section 3: Carrying out an activity in the public interest.

An unemployed worker receiving replacement income may carry out tasks of general interest as provided for in article L. 5425-9 for a maximum of fifty hours per month if the tasks in question give rise to remuneration and eighty hours per month if they do not.The period during which the worker may participate in tasks of general interest may not exceed six months.

Tasks of general interest are deemed to be those which, on the proposal of a public authority or a private not-for-profit organisation, have been approved by the prefect of the département in which the public authority or the head office of the organisation concerned is located. The decision sets the duration of the approval and the conditions under which the general interest tasks covered by the approval are carried out.