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Section 2: Financing of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article R2135-20 of the French Labour Code

For the application of the provisions of the fourth paragraph of II of Article L. 2135-15, the Government Commissioner has a period of twenty-one days from the date of receipt of the deliberation of the Board of Directors or the decision taken by another internal body or authority, which is transmitted to him by any means capable of conferring a date of certainty on its receipt, in which to object….

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Article R2135-22 of the French Labour Code

The annual report referred to in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 2135-16 shall indicate the use of funds by each of the beneficiary organisations referred to in Article L. 2135-12, for each of the missions referred to in Article L. 2135-11 and for each of the resources defined in Article L. 2135-10.

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Article R2135-23 of the French Labour Code

In the cases provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 2135-16, the Board of Directors may, by means of a resolution adopted in accordance with the procedures defined in the third paragraph of article R. 2135-15, give formal notice, by any means capable of establishing the date of receipt of this document, to the organisation in question to submit its observations on the breaches observed and to comply…

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Article R2135-24 of the French Labour Code

The total or partial suspension of the allocation of funding to an organisation or the reduction in the amount of funding ceases immediately when the Board of Directors finds that the organisation has complied with its obligations, and the full amount of the sums due to it is then paid.

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Article R2135-25 of the French Labour Code

If this is not the case, the amount of the reduction in funding, which takes into account the extent of the shortcomings and, where applicable, the existence of justifications for some of the expenditure incurred, may not exceed the amount of the sums in question in respect of the year for which the report on the use of appropriations or the justification for the expenditure incurred was lacking.

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Article R2135-26 of the French Labour Code

Appropriations that have not been committed by a beneficiary organisation during the financial year are returned to the fund and added to the total amount of appropriations of the same type that may be allocated for the following year. By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, funds paid to a beneficiary organisation that have not been committed during a financial year may be carried forward to the following financial…

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Article R2135-27 of the French Labour Code

The Board of Directors of the association managing the fund determines the amount earmarked to finance the activities referred to in 1° of Article L. 2135-11, which may not be less than 73 million euros. In the absence of a decision by the Board of Directors, the amount earmarked for the allocations provided for in 1° and 2° of I of Article R. 2135-28 is set at 73 million euros.

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Article R2135-28 of the French Labour Code

I. – For the application of 1° of I of article L. 2135-13, the fund distributes its appropriations equally between employees’ trade union organisations and employers’ professional organisations in accordance with the following terms and conditions: 1° An endowment is distributed between the employees’ trade union organisations, on the one hand, and the employers’ professional organisations, on the other hand, which are representative at national and cross-industry level. The appropriations…

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Article R2135-29 of the French Labour Code

Each year, the bodies mentioned in II of article L. 2135-10 communicate to the joint fund the amount of remuneration paid to the employees mentioned in the same article and included in the base for social security contributions defined inarticle L. 242-1 of the Social Security Code andarticle L. 741-10 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code for each professional branch for the year in question.

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