Section 1: Tasks of the agency and its network

I.-The Agence nationale pour l’amélioration des conditions de travail (National Agency for the Improvement of Working Conditions) is a national public administrative body under the supervision of the Minister for Labour. As part of the tasks entrusted to it pursuant to Article L. 4642-1, the Agency carries out actions aimed at influencing the determining factors in working conditions, in particular the organisation of work and industrial relations, with a view…

The Agence nationale pour l’amélioration des conditions de travail may set up regional offices. Each regional directorate is supported by a regional joint body which participates, in collaboration with the regional director, in defining its guidelines. The joint body adopts the annual regional action programme in line with the national programme. It draws up its rules of procedure in accordance with the provisions of the charter referred to in article…