Section 1: General provisions

I.-The approved joint bodies are known as “skills operators”. Their role is to: 1° To provide funding for apprenticeship and professionalisation contracts, in accordance with the levels of funding set by the branches ; 2° To provide technical support to member branches to establish forward-looking employment and skills management and to determine the levels of funding for apprenticeship contracts and professionalisation contracts; 3° Providing technical support to the professional branches…

I.-The skills operator is approved by the administrative authority to manage the funds mentioned in 1° and c of 3° of article L. 6123-5. It has national competence. II.Approval is granted to skills operators on the basis of: 1° Their financial capacity and management performance; 2° The coherence and economic relevance of their field of intervention; 3° Their joint management method; 4° Their ability to carry out their missions, taking…

Skills operators approved to manage the contribution referred to in chapter I of this title may collect additional contributions for the purpose of developing continuing vocational training. These contributions are paid either in application of a national professional agreement concluded between representative employers’ and employees’ organisations and pooled upon receipt by the body within the branches concerned, or on a voluntary basis by the company. They are tracked separately in…

I.-The skills operator is responsible for : 1° Actions contributing to the development of skills for the benefit of companies with fewer than fifty employees mentioned in article L. 6313-1 ; 2° Apprenticeship and professionalisation contracts, expenditure relating to the training of tutors and apprenticeship supervisors and the performance of their duties, as well as retraining or promotion initiatives through work-linked training; 3° If a branch agreement so provides, for…

An agreement on objectives and resources is concluded between each skills operator and the State. It sets out the funding arrangements, the framework for action and the objectives and results expected of the operators in carrying out their missions as defined in article L. 6332-1. This agreement is made public when it is signed and renewed. A decree determines the content, frequency and evaluation procedures for these agreements.

Where a person is an employee of a training body, he may not be an employee of a skills operator or a body delegated by the latter. Where a person is an employee of a credit institution, he may not be an employee of a skills operator or a body delegated by the latter. The combination of the functions of director in a skills operator and director or employee in…