Municipalities or their groupings may award operating grants to the local structures of representative trade union organisations which have legal personality and which fulfil missions of general interest at municipal or inter-municipal level. These structures may not transfer the subsidies to other legal entities and must account for their use in the report referred to in article L. 2251-3-1.
Subsidies are awarded by the deliberative assemblies of these local authorities or their groupings. Agreements concluded, where applicable, with the local structures of representative trade union organisations, pursuant to Article 10 of amended Law No. 2000-321 of 12 April 2000 on the rights of citizens in their relations with administrations and of the décret n° 2001-495 du 6 juin 2001pris pour son application, are attached to the deliberations awarding these grants when the transmission provided for in articles L. 2131-1 et L. 2131-2.