Section 3: France Compétences

France Compétences is a national public institution with legal personality and financial autonomy. It is responsible for 1° To pay funds to the skills operators mentioned in article L. 6332-1 for additional financing of apprenticeship and professionalisation contracts and retraining or promotion through work-linked training mentioned in article L. 6324-1, as part of inter-branch equalisation, as well as to ensure the financing of aid for driving licences and to pay…

France Compétences is administered by a Board of Directors and managed by a Managing Director.

The Board of Directors of France Compétences comprises : 1° A college of representatives of the State ; 2° A college of representatives of trade union organisations representing employees at national and cross-industry level; 3° A college of representatives of professional employers’ organisations representative at national and cross-industry level; 4° A college of representatives from the regions; 5° A college of qualified individuals appointed by the Minister responsible for vocational…

The Chief Executive Officer manages the institution in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the Board of Directors. He prepares the Board’s decisions and ensures that they are implemented. The Managing Director is appointed by decree, after receiving the opinion of the Board of Directors, on the report of the Minister for Vocational Training. The General Manager is heard by Parliament before his appointment and during his term of…

The employees of the national institution, who are entrusted with a public service mission, are governed by this Code. The rules on collective labour relations set out in Part Two of this Code apply to all employees of the institution.

The recommendations mentioned in 10° of Article L. 6123-5 are adopted by the France Compétences Board of Directors. They are made public and forwarded, depending on their purpose, to the ministers responsible for vocational training, national education, higher education and agricultural education, to the chairmen of the regional councils, to the chairmen of the joint national employment committees and to the chairmen of the skills operators concerned.

A three-year agreement on objectives and performance is signed between the State and France Compétences. This agreement is made public when it is signed and renewed. It defines the methods of financing, the implementation of missions and the methods of monitoring activity. An annual report is submitted to Parliament and to the Minister for Vocational Training to describe the implementation of the missions assigned to France Compétences. In terms of…

France Compétences’ revenue is made up of taxes of all kinds, subsidies, fees for services rendered, income from sales and rentals as well as donations and bequests and miscellaneous income. A percentage of this revenue is used to finance the implementation of the institution’s missions. The revenues and their allocation are specified by decree.

When the national joint employment committee or the joint committee of the branch concerned does not set the terms and conditions for the funding of work-linked training or when the level chosen does not converge towards the level identified by the recommendations mentioned in a of 10° of article L. 6123-5, the level of funding for professionalisation or apprenticeship contracts is set by decree.

A decree of the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the conditions for application of this section, in particular : 1° The nature of the funds and expenses referred to in 6° of Article L. 6332-6 ; 2° The documents and records relating to their management that the skills operators send to France Compétences and those that they submit to the persons appointed by France Compétences to monitor them. These provisions apply…