Section 4: Financial provisions

Neither the General Meeting, nor the Executive Committee, nor any of the members of a regional union may solicit or accept financial assistance on its behalf which, by its nature or size, would be likely to jeopardise the independence necessary for the accomplishment of the union’s tasks.

The associations draw up an annual budget forecasting their revenue and expenditure. A proportion of the association’s annual budget is earmarked for the implementation of the annual work programme. This fraction is determined by the union assembly and may not be less than 30% or more than 80% of the union’s annual budget. Within the regional union of doctors, a fraction of the union’s annual budget is made available to…

An Audit Committee, comprising between three and six members of the General Meeting who are not members of the Executive Committee, is elected each year by the General Meeting by secret ballot. It elects its chairman from among its members. However, no audit committee is set up in the regional unions, which are composed of only three members. The provisions of Chapter II of Title I of Book VI of…

The Commission’s budget, annual accounts and report are sent to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency.

Health professionals working under the agreement-based scheme on 1 January of the year are liable to pay the contribution instituted by article L. 4031-4. The contribution is paid by 15 May at the latest for the current year to the body responsible for collecting contributions under the general social security scheme.

For the application of article L. 4031-4, the contribution is based on income determined under the conditions defined in article L. 131-6 of the Social Security Code.

The proceeds of the contribution collected by the bodies responsible for its collection and centralised by the Agence centrale des organismes de sécurité sociale are distributed : 1° For the regional unions that elect their representatives according to the following distribution key: a) 25% is divided equally between all the unions representing the same profession; b) 75%, after deduction, where applicable, of the amounts mentioned in article R. 4031-26, is…

The annual rate of the contribution is set, by profession, as follows: 1° For doctors: 0.5% ; 2° For dental surgeons, pharmacists and responsible biologists: 0.3% ; 3° For nurses, masseur-physiotherapists, chiropodists, midwives, speech therapists and orthoptists: 0.1%.