The association’s representativeness is attested by a sufficient number of individually paid-up members, having regard to the public for whom the association is intended and the territorial scope of its activities. Failing this, the association is considered to be representative if it can prove that it has a large audience among the people it intends to represent or defend.
In the case of unions of associations, account is taken of the number of members of the associations that make them up or the audience of these associations among the people they intend to represent or defend.