A joint fund, entrusted with a public service mission, providing a contribution to the financing of employees’ trade union organisations and employers’ professional organisations, in respect of their participation in the design, implementation, evaluation or monitoring of activities contributing to the development and exercise of the missions defined in article L. 2135-11, shall be created by an agreement concluded between the representative organisations of employees and employers at national and cross-industry level. This agreement shall determine the organisation and operation of the fund in accordance with this section.
The agreement establishing the joint fund is subject to approval by the Minister responsible for labour. In the absence of an agreement or approval by the latter, the procedures for creating the fund and its organisational and operational conditions are defined by regulation.
The joint fund is authorised to receive the resources mentioned in article L. 2135-10 and to allocate them to employees’ trade union organisations and employers’ professional organisations under the conditions set out in articles L. 2135-11 to L. 2135-17.