Section 4: Professional advisory committees

Professional advisory committees may be set up, by a decree which specifies their composition and defines the organisational and operational procedures, under one or more certifying ministers, according to a perimeter which allows an analysis of diplomas and qualifications with a professional purpose which is coherent in terms of professional activity and economic organisation. If the committee is attached to several certifying ministers, the decree designates the coordinating minister who…

The Professional Advisory Commissions are made up of the following members, appointed for a period of five years by order of the Minister with whom they are set up or, where they are interministerial, the Minister responsible for their administrative and material organisation pursuant to the first paragraph of Article R. 6113-21: 1° One representative from each representative employee trade union organisation at national and cross-industry level, on the proposal…

If a member is unable to attend, he may give his proxy to another voting member. A member may not hold more than two proxies. The mandate is valid only for the meeting for which it was given.

The secretariat of each commission is provided by the departments of the ministry or ministries to which it is attached. The secretariat draws up the commission’s rules of procedure, which set out the conditions under which it operates and the rules of procedure applicable before it. The Commission meets when convened by its secretariat, which sets the agenda. No later than 31 January of each year, the secretariat draws up…

Temporary or permanent working groups are set up by the secretariat of the Professional Advisory Committees to prepare their work and opinions. These working groups are made up of people whose presence is deemed useful for the work undertaken because of their activity, their work or their involvement in the certification system, in particular representatives of trade unions or employers’ organisations that are representative at the level of a professional…

Expenses incurred by participation in the work of the professional advisory commissions and their working groups are paid in accordance with the procedures defined by decree.