Section 1: Tasks and operation

To carry out the tasks mentioned in Article L. 822-2, the National Consumer Institute: 1° With regard to nationally approved consumer protection associations: a) Carries out and provides technical support services, such as producing legal, economic and technical studies, educational and documentary files, summary and analysis files in preparation for the work of the National Consumer Council, training initiatives, comparative tests, television programmes and specialist publications. It provides access to…

The Director General of the National Consumer Institute determines the amounts of financial aid allocated to the regional consumer technical centres or assimilated regional or interregional structures to be included in these agreements or resulting from the implementation of the provisions thereof. The Director General of the Institut national de la consommation is the authorising officer for subsidies allocated to regional consumer technical centres or similar regional or interregional structures.

Each year, the National Consumer Institute draws up an activity report which includes, where applicable, proposals for legislative or regulatory amendments proposed by the commission referred to in Article L. 822-4. The opinions of this committee are appended to the report, together with the action taken on these opinions. This report is presented to the President of the Republic and to Parliament. It is made public.

The National Consumer Institute is administered by a Board of Directors made up of fifteen members with voting rights: 1° Five representatives of consumers and users appointed by the Minister responsible for consumer affairs; 2° Five representatives of the State, appointed jointly by the Minister responsible for the economy and the Minister responsible for consumer affairs; 3° Two representatives elected by the staff of the National Consumer Institute, under the…

The Board of Directors elects from among its members, for the duration of the term of office of its members, a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman, the latter automatically replacing the absent or impeded Chairman. The age limit applicable to the Chairman is set at seventy-two years. If the Chairman or Vice-Chairman ceases to hold office during his term, a successor shall be elected under the same conditions for the remainder…

The duties of a member of the Board of Directors are free of charge. They give entitlement to the travel and subsistence allowances provided for in décret n° 2006-781 du 3 juillet 2006 fixant les conditions et les modalités de règlement des frais occasionnés par les déplacements temporaires des personnels civils de l’Etat.

The Board of Directors meets at least three times a year, when convened by its Chairman, or at the request of the majority of its members or the Government Commissioner. The Chairman sets the agenda, which includes, in particular, questions requested by the majority of the members of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the Government Commissioner. The Chairman sets the agenda, which includes, in particular, items…

The Board of Directors deliberates on: 1° The general orientations of the establishment; 2° The multi-year contract of objectives that the establishment concludes with the State; 3° The annual or multi-year action programmes; 4° The rules of procedure of the committee mentioned in a of 1° of Article R. 822-1, as well as on the annual specifications for technical support services to consumer organisations drawn up by this committee and…

A Government Commissioner is appointed by the Minister for Consumer Affairs to sit on the Institute. He also sits on the commission mentioned in article L. 822-4.